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UK doctor among the first to get vaccinated
Posted at 10:47 PM, Dec 17, 2020
and last updated 2020-12-17 22:47:10-05
LEXINGTON, Ky. (LEX 18) â On Tuesday, the University of Kentucky Hospital began vaccinating their employees.
Dr. Charles Eckerline was one of the first doctors to receive the vaccine. Since then, hundreds of other medical professionals have been vaccinated.
In a few weeks, he will receive the booster dose, and until then he won t have immunity. He will continue to take the appropriate steps to protect himself and his patients but says this is a pivotal moment in Kentucky s fight against the virus. Hopefully, as we get more people immunized, particularly people who are high risk we will begin to open things up a bit and hopefully get back to normal by the spring, Dr. Eckerline said.
Kentucky Doctor Receives COVID-19 Vaccine Just as She Loses Her 27th Patient
Dr. Valerie Briones-Pryor was one of the first people to receive the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine when shipments started arriving in Louisville, Kentucky earlier this week. Like many of her colleagues, she was excited to get the injection, but the moment quickly turned “bittersweet.”
As soon as she received the drug, she learned that she had lost her 27th patient to the coronavirus. According to the state’s public health website, more than 2,000 Kentuckians have already died from COVID-19, and more are added to the list every day.
Dr. Briones-Pryor is using this experience to urge her fellow residents to take the pandemic seriously, even as the vaccine is being distributed.
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UK ICU doctor warns of crowded Kentucky hospitals, fatigued health care workers
and last updated 2020-12-15 18:16:41-05
LEXINGTON, Ky. (LEX 18) â Almost 10 months into the pandemic, a lead doctor at the University of Kentucky Hospital said the hospital is seeing the highest number of COVID-19 patients yet, forcing patients outside the ICU to be two-to-a-room.
Dr. Ashley Montgomery-Yates is the University of Kentucky Hospital s assistant chief medical officer for inpatient service as well as the director of the ICU recovery clinic where she works with COVID-19 patients on the University of Kentucky Hospital s COVID floor.
She said she wishes she could speak to those who refuse to accept the virus is real.