CADILLAC â Two of Spectrum Healthcare s employees spoke today about being among the first Michiganders to receive Pfizer s COVID-19 vaccine.
In a call with reporters, Spectrum President and CEO Tina Freese Decker announced that the healthcare administration had administered its first doses at 12:04 p.m. on Monday, Dec. 14.
Front-line and nursing home workers are in the first phase of the vaccine roll-out.
Dr. Marc McClelland, a pulmonologist who has been caring for COVID-19 patients, said he feels fine and that his arm is not sore.
Yvette Kamana, an ICU nurse, said she had initially been skeptical about the vaccine but has become more optimistic and volunteered to be among the first to be vaccinated.
Spectrum Health starts vaccinating staff for COVID-19
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and last updated 2020-12-14 23:16:47-05
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. â Spectrum Health received the first shipments of Pfizer s COVID-19 vaccine Monday morning, and administered it to several staff members in the afternoon.
COVID-19 vaccine arrives at Spectrum Health
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Among the first people to get the vaccine was Dr. Marc McClelland, a Pulmonary Medicine Doctor, and Yvette Kamana, a Registered Nurse who works in the ICU.
âThis day is tremendous. This is a very exciting day. I feel very grateful to have this opportunity. To me, this is a day of hope, said Dr. Marc McClelland who works in pulmonary medicine at Spectrum Health West Michigan.
Originally published on December 14, 2020 8:08 pm
Dr. Darryl Elmouchi got the notice Sunday night that the package was on the way. The cardiologist, who serves as president of West Michigan’s largest hospital system, got an alert through Spectrum Health’s command center, saying the initial shipment of 975 doses of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine was on the way.
“It literally felt like we were receiving a package from Amazon or Best Buy,” Elmouchi said during a Zoom call with media on Monday.
Spectrum Health’s main hospital, Butterworth, is a one-hour drive from the Pfizer facility in Portage where workers are churning out thousands of doses of the first vaccine approved in the U.S. to protect against the disease that’s now killed more than 300,000 Americans.
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