#USA 🇺🇸💉🦠

As the #US rolls out the #Pfizer#BioNTech vaccine, let’s have a look... how’s your state doing? Share a 📷 or a thought/perspective as we battle back against the #coronavirus / #covid19? Thread.

First up. New York. nyti.ms/3gLeErM Image
#USA 🇺🇸💉🦠 #Illinois

Doug Meyer, 38 respiratory therapist, airway manager @OSFHealthCare @PeoriaIllinois is among the 1st #Illinois healthcare workers to receive the #COVID19Vaccine. Ht @BlueRoomStream

#USA 🇺🇸💉🦠 #RhodeIsland

A Latino doctor, Dr. Christian Arbelaez, was the 1st person in Rhode Island to get the #COVID19 vaccine. Now he wants to be an example for his community. bostonglobe.com/2020/12/14/met… @DanMcGowan reports. Image
#USA 🇺🇸💉🦠 #Iowa

NYT: “Angela Mattingly, a hospital housekeeper in Iowa, was one of the first people in the U.S. to receive the #coronavirus vaccine on Monday. Mattingly has been cleaning the rooms of people with Covid-19 since the start of the pandemic.” Image
#USA 🇺🇸💉🦠 #Ohio

Dr. Meghana Moodabagil @MMoodabagilMD, @OhioStateIMRes & @OSUEMEdu resident, shares an update on how she's feeling 24 hours after receiving the 1st of the two vaccine series for #COVID19.
#TogetherAsBuckeyes Ht @OSUWexMed #OhioState

#USA 🇺🇸💉🦠 #California

History made.

Helen Cordova, a nurse in an intensive care unit in Los Angeles, became one of the first Californians to get vaccinated. Ht @GavinNewsom
#LA Image
#USA 🇺🇸💉🦠 #Florida

Memorial Healthcare System critical care physician Dr. Aharon Sareli became the 1st healthcare worker in the #COVID19 epicenter of South Florida to be vaccinated.

“A new ray of hope.” miamiherald.com/news/coronavir… @MiamiHerald @conarck reports. #Broward Image
#USA 🇺🇸🦠💉 #Texas

Teresa Mata, an environment services worker at Methodist Dallas, is 1st in TX to receive #Pfizer's #COVID19 vaccine.

Mata said she got the vaccine to protect her family at home & her work family. “I love my job.”
wfaa.com/article/news/h… @wfaa @wfaagmt Image
#USA 🇺🇸💉🦠 #NorthCarolina

Dr. Katie Passaretti, Atrium Health's Medical Director of Infection Prevention, became the 1st person vaccinated for #COVID19 in North Carolina; calls it “a moment of hope.” myfox8.com/news/first-per… @AtriumHealth
#USA 🇺🇸💉🦠 #Maine

Kayla Mitchell, 31, a registered nurse in Maine Medical Center’s #COVID Intensive Care Unit, received the 1st #vaccine in Maine this morning from Dr. Christina DeMatteo.
📷: @derek_ddavis
Read: pressherald.com/?p=5775866 @PressHerald @KelleyBouchard reports. Image
#USA 🇺🇸💉🦠 #WestVirginia

WVU Medicine has received shipments of the #PfizerBioNTech #COVID19 vaccine, & has begun offering it to frontline workers. Alfred Gest, MD, was the 1st J.W. Ruby Hospital employee to get the COVID-19 #vaccine. Ht @WVUMedicine Image
#USA 🇺🇸💉🦠 #Nevada

@UMCSN Hospital CEO Van Houweling says a UMC nurse was the 1st person to be vaccinated against #Covid19 with the #PfizerBioNTech #vaccine in Nevada. #frontlineworkers #FrontLineHeroes Image
#USA 🇺🇸🦠💉 #SouthCarolina

📷: Conway Medical Center Dr. Stephen T. Brady as Jennifer VanAernem stuck a needle in his left arm—representing the first FDA-authorized #PfizerCOVID-19 vaccine administered in Horry County & across South Carolina
postandcourier.com/myrtle-beach/h… Image
#USA 🇺🇸💉🦠 #Michigan

An early #Christmas present.

“I had no reservation about rolling up my sleeve at all [for the #Covid19 #vaccine],” said Marc McClelland, MD, a pulmonologist who works in the ICU w/ #COVID19 patients.

healthbeat.spectrumhealth.org/we-are-making-…
Ht @SpectrumHealth @SueThoms Image
#USA 🇺🇸🦠💉 #Idaho

Idaho's first #COVID19 vaccine goes to #ER doctor Russ McCune in Rexburg, E. Idaho, as #vaccines start historic rollout, according to @ThePostRegister postregister.com/coronavirus/fi… via @pfannyyy @johnroarkmedia #idahoCovid19 @NateBrownNews Image
#USA 🇺🇸💉🦠 #Montana

Six Bozeman Health employees among the 1st #Montanans to receive the #Covid19 vaccine. Dr. Andrew Sullivan, a pulmonary & critical care physician, was 1st in line, w/ the #vaccination taking less than a minute. bozemandailychronicle.com/coronavirus/bo… @PerrinStein reports. Image
#USA 🇺🇸💉🦠 #Kentucky

Video: Nurse Sarah Bishop administers the 1st #COVID19 vaccine in KY to Dr. Jason Smith, @UofLHealth Chief Medical Officer. Smith has led the hospital’s response to COVID-19.

Ht @WLKYDeni @WLKY
#USA 🇺🇸🦠💉 #Louisiana

Nurse Debbie Ford, MSN, RN, a chief #nursing officer (📷: via @chris_granger), & Dr. Leonardo Seoane, a pulmonary critical care physician, are among very 1st to receive #CovidVaccine in Louisiana; at @OchsnerHealth, via Dr. Mona Moghareh.

#FrontLineHeroes ImageImageImage
#USA 🇺🇸💉🦠 #Missouri

“It feels like a little bit of #hope…that we might start to see some healing & see some people truly getting better & potentially tackling this virus.” ~Sarah Kiehl, a registered nurse at Truman Medical Centers/University Health 👏

kansascity.com/news/coronavir… Image
#USA 🇺🇸🦠💉 #Minnesota

📷: Nurse Thera Witte was one of the 1st recipients of the #COVID19 vaccine at the Minneapolis VA Medical Center. The Cass Lake Indian Health Service facility in northern Minnesota reportedly administered its 1st doses Monday night to tribal elders. Image
#USA 🇺🇸💉🦠 #Delaware

“There is a light at the end of the tunnel.” ~Gov. @JohnCarneyDE

Elisabeth Cote, a progressive care unit #nurse at @BayhealthDE, was the first Delawarean to receive the #COVID19 vaccine this morning.

#covidfirstshot #covidvaccine Image
#USA 🇺🇸💉🦠 #NorthDakota

With a countdown of “3-2-1,” Sanford Health #nurse Melodi Krank injected the #vaccine into the left arm of Dr. Avish Nagpal, an infectious disease specialist who was the 1st person in North Dakota to receive it.
kxnet.com/news/health/co… #firstcovidshot Image
#USA 🇺🇸🦠💉 #Wisconsin

After UW Health (@UWHealth) received 1st shipment of #Covid19 vaccine, respiratory therapist Tina Schubert becomes the 1st to receive the vaccine. cbs58.com/news/uw-health… @victorjacobo_ reports. Ht @CBS58 #FrontLineHeroes #frontlineworkers ImageImage
#USA 🇺🇸💉🦠 #Arkansas

Nurse Sherian Kwanisai becomes 1st person in Arkansas to receive the #Pfizer-#BioNTech #COVID-19 vaccine. The US approved the emergency use of the coronavirus vaccine on Dec. 12. #hope

#arkansasnews #vaccine Video: Ht @KATVAlex Image
#USA 🇺🇸🦠💉 #Mississippi

State Health Officer Dr. Thomas Dobbs (@TCBPubHealth) received 1st #coronavirus vaccine in Mississippi during an afternoon livestream. “Felt like a butterfly,” Dobbs said w/ a smile to #nurse Lois Moore. “A little bit of a sting.”
wlbt.com/2020/12/14/hea… Image
#USA 🇺🇸💉🦠 #Hawaii

Aloha! Queen’s Medical Center. Dr. Lester Morehead, who works in the #COVID unit at Queen’s Punchbowl, is 1st person in Hawaii to get the #Covid19 #vaccine, followed by a respiratory therapist, 2 nurses & a housekeeping aide. Ht @HawaiiNewsNow @AllysonBlairTV Image
#USA 🇺🇸💉🦠 #Wyoming

"a turning point"

Maternal child health nurse Terry Thayn, a registered nurse at the Cheyenne-Laramie County Health Department, is 1st to receive #Covid19 vaccine in Wyoming.

wyomingnews.com/coronavirus/fi… @WTEnews @tomcoulter_ reports. Image
#USA 🇺🇸💉🦠 #Maryland

Nursing director Shawn Hendricks, Dr. Michael Winters, Dr. Sharon Henry, respiratory therapist Daisy Solares & environmental services employee Bill Thomas make history as 1st to receive #Covid19 vaccine in Maryland. Ht @GovLarryHogan baltimoresun.com/coronavirus/bs… Image
#USA 🇺🇸🦠💉 #Utah

“An overwhelming day”

Christy Mulder, a medical intensive care unit #nurse, becomes the 1st #Utahn to receive the #Pfizer #Covid19 vaccine, at University of Utah Hospital. @UofUHealth
sltrib.com/news/2020/12/1… @sltrib @SeanPMeans reports.

#FrontLineHeroes Image
#USA 🇺🇸💉🦠 #Indiana

Six Parkview Health @ParkviewHealth employees—a physician, nurse, respiratory therapist, pharmacist, patient care tech & environmental services tech—become 1st in the state to receive #COVID19 vaccine. fortwaynesnbc.com/2020/12/14/six… @KaylerJayne reports. Image
#USA 🇺🇸💉 🦠 #Nebraska

Bryan Medical Center CEO John Woodrich said Bryan started vaccinating staff members by 12:30pm & had about 300 hospital staffers plus 80 or so providers in its health network vaccinated by 3pm. 👏 journalstar.com/news/local/wat… @LincolnBizBuzz @JournalStarNews Image
#USA 🇺🇸💉🦠 #Virginia

A health worker named Yolanda who has worked at Norfolk General Hospital for almost 20 years is the 1st to receive the #COVID19 vaccine in Virginia. #FrontLineHeroes

@GovernorVA Northam was at @sentarahealth to celebrate this truly historic & hopeful day. Image
#USA 🇺🇸💉🦠 #Connecticut

#Hartford #HealthCare’s Dr. Ajay Kumar becomes the 1st person in Connecticut, & one of the 1st nationally, to receive the #COVID19 vaccine since its authorization. Video: Ht @AlexPutterman Image
#USA 🇺🇸💉🦠 #NewMexico

Five #healthcare workers on the #frontlines of the pandemic at Christus St. Vincent Regional Medical Center @CSVRMC 👏 are 1st to receive #COVID19 #vaccine in New Mexico.
ht @GovMLG

Video: @BradyWakayama @krqe #FrontLineHeroes Image
#USA 🇺🇸💉🦠 #Washington

#Healthcare workers in Washington began receiving the #COVID19 vaccine today, marking a turning point 10 months after the state confronted the first U.S. #outbreak of the virus.

“I feel hope.”

seattlepi.com/news/article/F… via @seattlepi ImageImageImageImage
#USA 🇺🇸💉🦠 #Kansas

📷: Intensive care nurse Kristen Garrett gets #vaccinated for #COVID19 by Aimee Wilson of Ascension Via Christi St. Francis Hospital in Wichita, as #health workers receive Kansas' first coronavirus vaccines
apnews.com/article/topeka… Image
#USA 🇺🇸🦠💉 #SouthDakota

📷: Dr. Anthony Hericks becomes one of 1st to receive the #COVID19 vaccine in South Dakota, at Avera Health, as nationwide #vaccination effort continues. @AveraHealth

argusleader.com/story/news/202… @argusleader @argusjellis reports.
#FrontLineHeroes Image
#USA 🇺🇸🦠💉 #Vermont

Cindy Wamsganz, RN, from the @UVMMedCenter Emergency Department, becomes 1st in Vermont to get the #COVID19 vaccine.

“I’m thankful our amazing team will soon have protection from the virus & we can end this difficult year on a positive note.”

#nurses 👏 Image
#USA 🇺🇸🦠💉 #Georgia

4 Coastal Georgia #nurses—from Chatham County Health Department, Memorial University Medical Center, Candler Hospital & St. Joseph’s Hospital—along w/ some health department nurses, among 1st to receive #Covid19 vaccine.

gpb.org/news/2020/12/1… @ejreports Image
#USA 🇺🇸🦠💉 #Oklahoma

“Oklahoma, this is a historic day.” ~@GovStitt

Hannah White, a registered #nurse at INTEGRIS Health who has served on the frontlines of the #COVID19 pandemic since March, is 1st #Oklahoman in the state to receive a dose of the #PfizerBioNTech #vaccine. Image
#USA 🇺🇸💉🦠💉 #Colorado

At 2pm today, the 1st #Covid19 vaccinations in the state were administered to #healthcare workers at @uchealth Poudre Valley Hospital. 👏 Ht @GovofCO

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#USA 🇺🇸💉🦠 #Massachusetts

Margaret Klessens, a 96-year-old #WorldWarII veteran living in Bedford, Massachusetts was the 1st VA patient in the country to get the #coronavirus #vaccine on Monday.

boston.cbslocal.com/2020/12/14/cor…

@VABedfordHCS 🙌 #thankyouforyourservice @VeteransHealth Image
#USA 🇺🇸🦠💉 #Pennsylvania

Charmaine Pykosh, an acute care #nurse in the surgical intensive care unit at @UPMC Presbyterian, receives via UPMC’s Chief Quality Officer Tami Minnier the 1st #Covid19 #vaccination in Pittsburgh.

pennlive.com/news/2020/12/f… Ht @PennLive @PatriotNews Image
#USA 🇺🇸🦠💉 #Arizona

A historic day at The Phoenix Veteran Affairs Health Care System as 94-year-old #WorldWarII #veteran John Mohun becomes the 1st in Arizona to get a #COVID19 vaccine.

azfamily.com/news/continuin… via @azfamily ht @LivingstonLD22 Image
#USA 🇺🇸🦠💉 #NewJersey

A historic moment this morning. And a milestone for #publichealth as Maritza Beniquez, in her words, a proud Latina American nurse hero, got the 1st #COVID19 vaccine in New Jersey @UnivHospNewark. ✊

Ht @GovMurphy @ShereefElnahal
#USA 🇺🇸🦠💉 #NewHampshire

Five Elliot Hospital workers, including intensive care #nurse Heidi Kukla, roll up their sleeves for 1st #Covid19 #vaccinations in New Hampshire.

unionleader.com/news/health/co… @UnionLeader’s @mhayward reports. #NH #FrontLineHeroes Image
#USA 🇺🇸🦠💉 #Alabama

Dr. Walter Doty, director of critical care at Southeast Health, & Dr. Ravi Nallamothu become 1st in Alabama to receive #COVID19 vaccine. Shots administered by Chris Holland, RN, Dir. of Surgical Services at Southeast. dothaneagle.com/news/local/two…
Ht @sable_ellice Image
#USA 🇺🇸🦠💉 #Alaska

Hospital workers, including employees at the Alaska Native Medical Center in Anchorage, received some of the 1st doses of the #COVID19 vaccine in Alaska on Tuesday morning.

bit.ly/3agahDS
📸 Jeff Chen/Alaska Public Media
Ht @KTOOpubmedia Image
#USA 🇺🇸🦠💉 #WashingtonDC

#Vaccinated. Have a listen to Barbara Neiswander, an emergency nurse & nursing supervisor at GW Hospital, who was the 1st to get the #Covid19 vaccine at @GWHospital in Washington, DC.

Video: Ht @amanduhgomez
#FrontLineHeroes Image
#USA 🇺🇸🦠💉 #Oregon

5 healthcare workers at Legacy Health (@OurLegacyHealth) in #Portland just received the 1st #Covid19 vaccinations to be administered in Oregon.

Ht @bryant_clerkley @KGWSunrise @KGWNews
#FrontLineHeroes #frontlineworkers Image
#USA 🇺🇸🦠💉 #PuertoRico 🇵🇷

Yahaira Alicea Nieves, a respiratory therapist who treated the 1st #COVID19 patients at a San Juan Hospital, becomes 1st person on the island to be vaccinated against the novel coronavirus. 

Ht @MiamiHerald @syraob
miamiherald.com/news/coronavir… Image
#USA 🇺🇸🦠💉 #Tennessee

#Nashville surgeon among 1st in Tennessee to receive authorized Pfizer #COVID19 vaccine. newschannel5.com/news/nashville… On Wednesday night, Dr. William Polk received the 1st dose of the vaccine, as Tennessee became last of 50 states to administer the shots. Image
#USA 🇺🇸🦠💉 #Guam 🇬🇺

Three officials from Guam’s Department of Public Health & Social Services—DPHSS physician Dr. Robert Leon Guerrero, DPHSS nurse in charge Zennia Pecina & DPHSS director Art San Agustin
were 1st to get the #COVID19 vaccine.

postguam.com/news/local/gua… @PostGuam Image
#USA 🇺🇸🦠💉 #USVirginIslands #USVI 🇻🇮

Registered nurse Hope Bagley delivered the 1st shot to Dr. Jan Tawakol of Plessen Healthcare in Estate Orange Grove on Wednesday in the U.S. Virgin Islands. #Christiansted #StCroix

vifreepress.com/2020/12/health…
#USVIStrong ImageImage
#USA 🇺🇸🦠💉 #CNMI 🇲🇵

Renea Raho (CHCC Chief of Nursing, @cnmichcc ) was the 1st to receive the #PfizerBioNTech #COVID19 vaccine in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. #NorthernMarianaIslands #Saipan. #FrontLineHeroes Image
#USA 🇺🇸🦠💉 #AmericanSamoa 🇦🇸

📷: Director of Health Motusa Tuileama Nua was injected with the #PfizerBioNTech #Covid19 vaccine at the Tafuna Community Health Center in American Samoa becoming the 1st in the American territory to receive the #vaccine.

talanei.com/2020/12/20/doh…
#USA 🇺🇸🦠💉
And it’s a wrap, & a start.
Thread. With photos above ⬆️ from #NewYork to #AmericanSamoa.

DYK: #vaccinations for #Covid19 have now begun in all 50 states & the District of Colombia as well as in all US territories. 🇺🇸🇦🇸🇬🇺🇲🇵🇵🇷🇻🇮

#vaccinations #hope #StrongerTogether

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