By Jason Taylor
Dec 15, 2020
IOWA CITY, Iowa - The University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics is projecting most Iowa residents will get access to COVID-19 vaccines by spring of next year.
Infectious disease specialist Dr. Patricia Winokur with UIHC says most Iowans can expect the vaccine by March or April, and it will probably take through the summer to vaccinate as many people as need to be treated.
More than 100 UIHC employees received the vaccine Monday, the first of which was Emergency department nurse David Conway in a ceremonial display that drew media attention from across the country.
UIHC hospital received 975 Pfizer doses. The hospital has around 17,000 workers.
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David Conway, an emergency medicine nurse, was the first staff member to receive the COVID-19 vaccine at the University of Iowa Hospital in Iowa City on Monday.KATHRYN GAMBLE/NYT
PITTSBURGH â Some of the very medical centers that have endured the worst of the coronavirus outbreak in the United States found the gloom that has long filled their corridors replaced by elation and hope Monday as health care workers became the first to take part in a mass vaccination campaign aimed at ending the pandemic.
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Patricia Winokur.
University of Iowa hospital employees have started receiving the first round of the COVID-19 vaccine. Patricia Winokur oversaw the U-I’s Pfizer vaccine trial and was pleased to be a part of its rapid development.
“This one’s in the history books now I don’t think there’s anything that we are going to see going into the history books in medicine that’s going to surpass this for quite some time,” Winokur says. ” So to be a part of it it’s an amazing and emotional time.”
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