Pinellas nursing home residents among first to get coronavirus vaccine
Carrington Place of St. Pete was one of 13 Pinellas County facilities to receive the vaccines on Wednesday.
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The Department of Health in Pinellas County hosted an online media call on Wednesday regarding the first coronavirus vaccinations administered in a county nursing home. The center image, broadcast from the Carrington Place of St. Pete nursing home, shows resident Teresita Villanueva, 79, middle, and R.B. Bridges, CEO of Traditions Senior Management, right, who both received vaccinations during the call. [ KAREN PETERSON | Times ]
Updated Dec. 16, 2020
ST.PETERSBURG â In front of a lit Christmas tree and before a virtual audience, paramedics administered coronavirus vaccines on Wednesday to a resident and an administrator of a St. Petersburg nursing home.