Mayo Clinic starts vaccinating wellness treatment staff members for COVID-19 vaccine

Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville began administering the COVID-19 vaccine to its overall health care team Thursday.

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Kniely Maxwell, a registered nurse in the Mayo Clinic Jacksonville crisis section, was the hospital’s very first personnel to acquire the COVID-19 Thursday morning.

Vaccinations acquired underway on a voluntary foundation next condition and federal assistance, prioritizing medical center staff, emergency responders and long-phrase treatment employees, in accordance to spokeswoman Tia Ford.

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“All staff have been listed … according to their work exposure threat. Staff functioning instantly with COVID-19 clients will be vaccinated to start with,” she claimed. “Mayo Clinic administrative management like CEO Dr. [Kent] Thielen, will acquire the vaccine in a later on section.

The vaccine was developed by Pfizer and its German companion, BioNTech, and permitted for unexpected emergency use Friday by the Food and Drug Administration. The shipments started Monday as the state surpassed 300,000 deaths from the virus. By Thursday, the dying toll had topped 308,000.

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UF Well being Jacksonville was the initially place medical center to get the Pfizer vaccine and began staff members shots Monday. Naval Healthcare facility Jacksonville adopted Wednesday, with Mayo and Ascension St. Vincent’s Thursday, Baptist Well being on Friday and other area hospitals in the coming times.

A separate vaccine made by Moderna is awaiting FDA approval.

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