COVID vaccines to begin emerging for health care workers this week
Posted/updated on: December 15, 2020 at 12:49 pm
TYLER — Vaccines will be unfurled to health care workers in Tyler starting early this week. NET Health’s Russell Hopkins told KTBB Monday, “First off their is the biological response, and hopefully they will be protected from the disease of COVID. So there is that advantage, and I’m sure that that is a load off their mind, but there is also a psychological advantage of getting the vaccine first. Many have been separated from family. So now, they can get back to some sense of normalcy. Because the people they care about won’t be threatened.”
Hopkins continued, “The fact that they can come to work now and not have to worry about getting sick, means less chance that they would have to be isolated or quarantined. Even if they show up to work, and have a slight fever, those folks are not allowed to work. So it is going to help with staffing in the hospital, all the way down to the nurses, to support staff, respiratory therapists and janitors and those folks that check you in when you show up. Those folks will be protected so they can care for us, when they roll out the rest of the vaccines.”
Smith County:
CHRISTUS Mother Frances Hospital, in Tyler, is reported to get 975 doses.
UT Health-Tyler is reported to get 3,900 doses.
Gregg County:
CHRISTUS Good Shepherd Medical Center in Longview is reported to get 975 doses.
Longview Medical Center, L.P. is reported to get 975 doses.
