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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ)
St. Mary s Hospital in Jefferson City administered its first shots of Pfizer s coronavirus vaccine Tuesday afternoon.
SSM Health, which owns the hospital, accepted its first shipment of the vaccine at 10:30 a.m., inviting reporters and photographers inside to see employees unpack the doses.
Alloch Burton, the Clinical Pharmacy Manager at St. Mary s, said they have extra space in the ultra cold freezer storage if more requests for vaccines are made. We have the ability to store more vaccines than we received that s just kind of the nature of the freezer, he said. We feel it s our duty to get as many people vaccinated as quickly as possible.
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First shipments of coronavirus vaccine arrive in Missouri
COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ)
Hospitals across Missouri should have the first doses of the coronavirus vaccine this week, possibly as early as Monday.
Gov. Mike Parson said on his social media accounts Monday afternoon that the first vials of Pfizer s coronavirus vaccine have arrived in the state.
The doses will go out to 21 sites across the state which will then being vaccinations, Parson said.
BJC HealthCare spokeswoman Lauren High said Monday morning that BJC will get its first vaccine doses Monday or Tuesday. The company will receive about 9,750 doses and start administering them by the end of the week, she said.
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