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On Tuesday, America’s COVID-19 mass vaccination campaign continued. Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas was one of the 19 additional hospitals in the state to receive vaccine shipments after the first distribution of doses Monday.
Parkland COVID Unit Nurse Perla Sanchez-Perez was the first to receive a vaccine a the hospital. She said she has a family and wants to keep them safe.
Perla Sanchez-Perez, RN, COVID unit nurse @Parkland is the first to receive vaccine.
She says she has a family and wants to keep them safe and that she’s excited to be protected for them and her patients. @keranewspic.twitter.com/SeqMuZhRjB hady mawajdeh (@hadysauce) December 15, 2020
Updated on December 15, 2020 at 2:12 pm
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Parkland Memorial Hospital, UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas and Texas Health Resources in Fort Worth are among the 19 Texas hospitals set to receive 75,000 doses of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine Tuesday.
The first wave of frontline health care workers received the vaccine at Methodist Dallas Medical Center Monday. Vaccinations began at about 10:10 a.m. with the first shot going to 51-year-old Teresa Mata, an environmental services employee who cleans the emergency room at Methodist Dallas, spokesman Ryan Owens said. Mata said she was excited to be the first person to receive it and “wanted to take the risk” because she is diabetic.
Mata was the first to get the vaccine, followed by other frontline staff, including doctors and nurses.
“It is an emotional and exciting day, Methodist Dallas ER Dr. Zachery Dreyfuss said. We have been dealing with this since March. This is the beginning hopefully of the end of the pandemic. Staff members who interact with COVID-19 patients at Methodist Dallas Medical Center were among the first people in the country to receive Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine on Monday. NBC 5’s Maria Guerrero reports that those who took it say it filled them with hope.
Parkland Memorial Hospital and UT Southwestern in Dallas and Texas Health Resources in Fort Worth are among 19 more Texas hospitals scheduled to receive shipments of the vaccine Tuesday.
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