Memphis hospitals begin vaccinating frontline health care workers
Methodist LeBonheur Healthcare begins COVID-19 vaccinations By WMC Action News 5 Staff | December 17, 2020 at 11:40 AM CST - Updated December 17 at 3:20 PM
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC) - Memphis hospitals are wasting no time getting staff vaccinated. The COVID-19 vaccines started to arrive at hospitals in the Bluff City Thursday morning.
Around 9 am, doctors, nurses and other staff who qualify got their first rounds of the Pfizer vaccine at Methodist Germantown.
Baptist and the Memphis VA hospital also started administering vaccines.
The Memphis VA is one of the first 37 VA sites across the country to receive the vaccine.