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.
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.
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.”
Memorial Healthcare System critical care physician Dr. Aharon Sareli became the 1st healthcare worker in the #COVID19 epicenter of South Florida to be vaccinated.
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
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
📷: 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…
“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.
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.
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.
“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 👏
📷: 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.
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
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
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…
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
Maternal child health nurse Terry Thayn, a registered nurse at the Cheyenne-Laramie County Health Department, is 1st to receive #Covid19 vaccine in Wyoming.
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 @GovLarryHoganbaltimoresun.com/coronavirus/bs…
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
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
#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
#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.
📷: 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…
📷: Dr. Anthony Hericks becomes one of 1st to receive the #COVID19 vaccine in South Dakota, at Avera Health, as nationwide #vaccination effort continues. @AveraHealth
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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. ✊
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
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.
#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.
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.
#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.
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.
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
📷: 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.
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The mansion is closed due to #Covid19, but perhaps a 📷 or two from the grounds of the home of America’s first president, George Washington, & perhaps the most visited historic home in the USA: Mount Vernon @MountVernon in Virginia. #StayTuned!
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A #TwitterTour of Mount Vernon #GWMountVernon@MountVernon 🇺🇸 to follow…
Thread. The home of George & Martha Washington & the most popular historic home in America.
The #IMF says the "Great Lockdown" recession will likely be the worst since the Great Depression. Global economy projected to shrink by 3% in 2020. By contrast, in January, the IMF had forecast a global GDP expansion of 3.3% for this year. Details in chart below. Table: @IMFNews
IMF: Partial global rebound to 5.8% in 2021 “assumes the #pandemic fades in the 2nd half of 2020, & that policy actions taken by countries are effective in preventing widespread firm bankruptcies, extended job losses, & system-wide financial strains.” #WEOow.ly/ZLYi50zccSJ
Thread. Join me on this #TwitterTour of the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis. A #MustSee. DYK: the Lorraine Motel, the site of the assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., has been transformed into @NCRMuseum. #BHM#BlackHistoryMonth#MLK50NCRM Act. Engage. See.