READY TO GO: ALH administers 1st COVID-19 vaccine Dec 16, 2020
Dec 16, 2020
Athens earned itself yet another spot in the history books Tuesday, becoming home to one of the first health care workers in Alabama to receive the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine against the novel coronavirus.
Athens-Limestone Hospital was one of 15 hospitals in the state designated to receive part of the first batch of vaccines to be distributed to front-line health care workers following federal approval of the vaccine. ALH Interim President Traci Collins said the hospital received 1,950 doses in total, with a little more than half of the hospital s eligible employees saying they wanted to be vaccinated.