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Registered Nurse Connie Grams gives a thumbs up after receiving the COVID-19 vaccination. She was the first person to receive the vaccine at New Ulm Medical Center. She would later administer the vaccine to her fellow co-workers.
NEW ULM At approximately 10:18 a.m. Connie Grams, a registered nurse at New Ulm Medical Center (NUMC), became the first person in Brown County to receive the Pfizer vaccine for COVID-19.
NUMC scheduled 55 vaccines to be administered to frontline staff Tuesday. The medical center plans to scheduled two vaccination days a week. The goal is to have all staff receive the first vaccination by January.
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The first shipment of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine arrived at New Ulm Medical Center on Tuesday. Kathy Thompson, quality & risk manager; Reid Horning, pharmacy manager; and Charlie Sieberg, pharmacy coordinator, accepted the shipment and stored the vaccine in the sub-zero freezer at the New Ulm Allina Health facility. Courtesy New Ulm Medical Center
MANKATO â The first major rollout of COVID-19 vaccines in the Mankato area is set to proceed Monday, with health workers at area hospitals receiving vaccinations as soon as that day.
Health workers at risk of getting COVID at work and residents of long-term care facilities will be prioritized for the first wave of vaccinations. Organizations have been training staff and scheduling times in anticipation of distribution day on Monday.
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Kathy Thompson, Quality & Risk manager, Reid Horning, Pharmacy manager, and Charlie Sieberg, Pharmacy coordinator, accepted the shipment of NUMCâs first COVID-19 vaccine on Tuesday and stored the vaccine in the sub-zero freezer at the New Ulm Medical Center.
NEW ULM New Ulm Medical Center (NUMC) received its first shipment of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine on Tuesday.
The shipment was stored in the medical center’s sub-zero freezer. NUMC is a regional hub for the vaccine, storing it at the recommended -70 degrees Celsius for several regional medical facilities.
NUMC will begin vaccinating health care workers Tuesday, Dec. 22. Fifty individuals are scheduled to be administered the vaccine on this first day with more to follow.