Posted on 12/15/2020 12:06:01 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
IOWA CITY, Iowa — In a room 12 stories above the emergency department where he has been caring for COVID-19 patients over the last nine months, David Conway, 39, Monday morning became the first person in Iowa to receive a vaccine for the novel coronavirus since its emergency authorization Friday.
Conway, a University of Iowa Health Care emergency department nurse for four years, said he didn’t hesitate when asked if he’d be willing to get the vaccine on day one on the UI’s medical campus.
“Of course I am,” Conway said, seconds before choosing his left arm and holding still while a nurse administered the shot and cameras clicked for the historic occasion.
“How’d it feel?” Vice President for Medical Affairs Brooks Jackson asked after the injection.
“Excellent,” Conway said, airing hope that his shot marked — along with many others across the nation Monday morning — the beginning of the end of a devastating period in American and world history. “It’s got to start somewhere.”
The UI has played several pivotal roles in addressing the fast-spreading deadly coronavirus that to date has taken 1.6 million lives globally and nearly 300,000 in the United States. The country has reported more infections than any other nation, at 16.3 million, as of Monday. Iowa has accumulated 277,775 of that total and confirmed 3,273 COVID-19 deaths.
Well before the virus arrived on U.S. soil, UIHC coronavirus expert Stanley Perlman was laying the groundwork for a future vaccine with his research. And then UI Health Care was among the international slate of trial sites for the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, which became the first approved late Friday and arrived on UIHC’s doorstep Monday by FedEx.
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Why is Jonestown the first thing that popped into my mind as I read this?
Did they give the first one to a protected illegal?
Well, the AMC came out today and ok’d the use of HCQ and Zinc as an early treatment...Yep, they sure did.
I wonder if one of the side effects of this vaccine makes a person sterile?....LOL
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