Medical Arts Hospital (MAH) received its first shipment of 100 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine this past Wednesday.
The Moderna vaccine will be administered to MAH healthcare workers starting next week. Hospital officials must first put some protocols in place before administering the vaccine.
“We have not received any vaccine for the community,” said Letha Stokes, MAH chief executive officer.
It is not known when there will be enough to start vaccinating the public.
“We’re pretty excited that we got accepted as pretty quickly as we did,” Stokes. “I can take care of my employees and they can take care of our community.”
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