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UConn Health Workers ‘Feeling Great’ a Week After Getting COVID-19 Vaccine
A week after getting vaccinated against COVID-19, UConn Health workers say they re feeling well and excited to see the vaccine roll out across the state.
UConn Deputy Chief of Police Maggie Silver receives a vaccine for COVID-19 on December 15, 2020 (Tina Encarnacion/UConn Health photo) Copy Link
UConn Health received its initial COVID-19 vaccine shipment from Pfizer on Dec. 15, and that afternoon vaccinated its first 35 employees with their first of two doses of the vaccine, recommended to be administered three weeks apart.
One week later, some of those employees – among the very first people in the U.S. to be vaccinated – offered their perspective for the nearly 900 employees who followed them, and the many more employees and others to come, so they can have a greater sense of what to expect.
Historic Turn in Pandemic with First Vaccinations at UConn Health
UConn Health received its first shipment of nearly 1,000 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine made by Pfizer, just FDA-approved for emergency use authorization.
UConn Health emergency department physician Dr. Alise Frallicciardi receives one of the first COVID-19 vaccines from staff nurse Jennifer Pickert. (Tina Encarnacion/UConn Health photo) Copy Link
This morning UConn Health received its first shipment of nearly 1,000 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine made by Pfizer, just FDA-approved for emergency use authorization. The COVID-19 vaccine’s arrival led to today’s historic milestone of the first vaccinations of more than three dozen UConn Health front line clinical care workers at the Outpatient Pavilion.
COVID-19 Vaccine on Its Way Soon Bringing Hope for the Holidays
UConn Health is one of four initial Connecticut health care institutions receiving the first shipments of the COVID-19 vaccine in Phase 1a. Initially, UConn Health will be responsible for vaccinating only health care workers including its own health care employees and other community health care workers working in the surrounding towns of Avon, Canton, and Farmington.
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Today an FDA panel made the historic vote to recommend authorization for emergency use of the first COVID-19 vaccine in the United States, bringing real hope that the pandemic’s end may be in sight.