Mississippi is receiving it first round of coronavirus vaccines, but who will have access to the vaccine first?
Mississippi is recieving it's - first round of corona virus - vaccines.
Who will have access- to the vaccine first, news 25's- sabria reid has more.
- - - - 975 doses of the corona virus - vaccine will be sent to memoria- hospital in gulfport this - weekend or early next week.
- everyone wants to know who will- get the vaccine first.- - - - cindy hansen the director of- employee health at memorial - hospital tells news 25 their- distribution process.
- cindy hansen, director of - employee health:- "the state recomendatin and the- cdc's is to emmunize our- healthcare- providers our front line worker- first so that we can be - available and protected to- - - continue to be here for our - community and managing our- patients in the hostpital.
"- sabria reid, news 25: - "at memorial hostipal, the firs- responders who deal directly- with coronavirus patients - will get the vaccine first."- cindy hansen, director of - employee health:- "people taking care of covid- patients, our er, or icr, - respiritory therapist and anyon- who has direct patient contact- with covid patients those are - our first line."- the vaccine will be availble to- all front line workers, as a- two shot series 21 to 28 days - apart but not everyone is on- board to take it.
- cindy hansen, director of - employee health:- "initial concesses is about - 50/50 believe it or not, some - still have some concernes - - - - about being the first ones on - the block to take the vaccine."- "we have others, my phone has - been lit up with people wanting- to get on the list to be- - first in line to get the- vaccine."
- thursday an all-day regulatory- meeting is scheduled to take- place.
The next step- toward the likely authorization- of the first covid-19 vaccine i- the u.s.- cindy hansen, director of - employee health:- "when the fda approves the- vaccine that there will be more- information provided- from pfizer on ingredients, wha- they did, is it egg free, there- are a lot of- different questions that come - out from the fda approval."
- gulfport residents we spoke - - with, are ready for the vaccine- cassandra stover, gulfport- resident: - "i don't think the effects coul- be any worse than not taking it- and i was to get it,- so i think it's something like- the flu virus, you'll feel a- little sick for a couple days - then you're gonna be okay."
- mindy whitten, gulfport - resident,:- "anything that can protect us,- i'd be willing to try can't hur- at this point."
- in gulfport, sabria reid, news- - - - 25.
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