Vaccine arrives at MU Health Care

Are getting vaccinated in missouri...the university of missouri health care received its first covid-19 vaccine shipment.

Nearly 3-thouand doses of the pfizer vaccine arrived tuesday night.

Today -- the hospital began vaccinating mu health care doctors, nurses and other hospital employees who work directly with patients... employees said they were excited to be among the first to receive the vaccine were getting it to protect their patients, families, and communities.

(sot jonathan heidt, md/emergency medicine physician: "words can't really describe it, really.

For the first time in this pandemic, i think we felt hope for the future.

Since this began in march, the emotions have been fear to anger to sometimes even despair.

But today was the first time we felt real hope that we're going to turn the corner and move forward.") this inital shipment will be distributed to frontline workers over the next week.

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