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Tanya Harvey is a Registered Nurse in Alberta and has become the first person in Calgary to receive the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine.
Tanya Harvey at work (Photo provided by Tanya Harvey)
“I was excited going into it, a bit nervous about doing it in front of media but humbled to be the first person in Calgary to get the vaccine,” said Harvey,”I wasn’t afraid of anything to do with the science behind it because I’ve done a good job of reviewing evidence-based, peer-reviewed information on the study protocols.”
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Posted: Dec 16, 2020 6:53 PM MT | Last Updated: December 17, 2020
Dr. Selena Au works in three of Calgary s adult intensive care units and says COVID-19 patients can stay in the ICU up to 3 weeks. (Submitted by Dr. Selena Au)
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A patient is attached to a ventilator in the COVID-19 intensive care unit of a hospital. COVID-19 has now killed more people in Alberta than influenza did over the last 10 years combined, 760 people since March, Dr. Deena Hinshaw, Alberta s chief medical officer of health warned Wednesday.(Jonathan Hayward/The Canadian Press)
First COVID-19 vaccines administered in Calgary and Edmonton
Last Updated Dec 16, 2020 at 6:10 am MDT
CALGARY (660 NEWS) – A registered nurse and a respiratory therapist are the first two Albertans to receive the new Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine.
“I understand, the first to receive it, just received the vaccine moments ago was respiratory therapist, Sahra Kaahiya at Edmonton’s University of Alberta hospital and that Intensive Care Nurse Tanya Harvey at the Foothills Medical Centre in Calgary is also receiving the vaccine,” said Premier Jason Kenney during Tuesday’s provincial COVID-19 update.
Sahra Kaahiye, a respiratory therapist in #yeg, is the first Albertan to receive a #COVID19 vaccine. “The availability of a COVID-19 vaccine is great news,” she says. #ShotofHopepic.twitter.com/kup117DE4T