Wetaskiwin’s Free Our Finest team had to cancel is summer fund raising event and the Fire versus RCMP game due to COVID-19 – but they aren’t giving up.
The Moderna COVID-19 vaccine has arrived, and employees at Sheridan Memorial Hospital are being vaccinated.
Dr. John Addlesperger, who’s the hospital’s chief of staff, said the vaccine arrived a little after noon Wednesday, and 40 people had been innoculated by Wednesday night. Vaccinations continued Thursday and after a break for the holiday, will continue on Monday.
Two vaccines have been approved by the Federal Food and Drug Administration at this time, Moderna and Pfizer, but Dr. Addlesperger said the hospital won’t receive the Pfizer vaccine until after the first of the year.
But, he said, Sheridan Memorial Hospital expects to have a new ultra-cold freezer in another two or three weeks. The freezer is for the Pfizer vaccine, which has to be stored at a temperature between minus-80 and minus-60 degrees Celcius.