KITCHENER The first patient in the Guelph area has received a COVID-19 vaccine. Sarah Ricci was the first patient to get the shot. She’s the programs manager at Shelburne Long-Term Care north of Orangeville, which had one of the region’s worst COVID-19 outbreaks during the first wave of the pandemic. I feel great, happy to be here, she said. In total, 56 residents and 20 staff members contracted the disease. Twenty people died. Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph Public Health nurse Andrea Bothwell administered the first shot on Wednesday morning. Public health staff were familiarizing themselves with the process, which is different from other vaccines.
Orangeville, ON, Canada / 101.5 Orangeville Today
Jan 6, 2021 2:25 PM
Public health nurse, Andrea Bothwell administers first Pfizer vaccine to Shelburne Long Term Care Home worker, Sarah Ricci (Jan. 6 2021)
A Shelburne Long Term Care Home worker was the first person in the Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph Public Health region to be inoculated against COVID-19.
As a staffer in one of Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph’s hardest hit facilities, Sarah Ricci says she was excited to be the first.
Administering her shot was public health nurse, Andrea Bothwell, who breathed a sigh of relief when asked how she felt about inoculating her first patient after what she described as a grueling year on the front lines.