Health care workers receive Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine

Sarah Yenesel

Wednesday, December 16, 2020

Five employees from SoutheastHEALTH were the first health care workers of the organization and first in the region to receive the first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine at Southeast Hospital in Cape Girardeau on Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2020.

Nurse Molly Brown and Nurse Audrey Raechel-Batz review and sign consent forms to be the first health care workers at SoutheastHEALTH and in the region to receive the first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine at Southeast Hospital on Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2020. (Sarah Yenesel ~ Southeast Missourian)
Nurse Mary Carter reviews and signs a consent form to be the first health care workers at SoutheastHEALTH and in the region to receive the first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine on at Southeast Hospital Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2020. (Sarah Yenesel ~ Southeast Missourian)
Nurse Angela Head, who will administer the vaccine, looks at the first doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine before she injects them at Southeast Hospital on Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2020. (Sarah Yenesel ~ Southeast Missourian)
Nurse Angela Head, who will administer the vaccine, places the first doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine on a table before she injects them into the first five health care workers at SoutheastHEALTH and in the region to receive it at Southeast Hospital on Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2020. (Sarah Yenesel ~ Southeast Missourian)

President and CEO of SoutheastHEALTH Kenneth Bateman makes a speech before the first five health care workers at SoutheastHEALTH and in the region receive the first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine on Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2020. (Sarah Yenesel ~ Southeast Missourian)
Nurse Angela Head puts on gloves before administrating the first Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine to Nurse Mary Carter at Southeast Hospital on Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2020. (Sarah Yenesel ~ Southeast Missourian)
Nurse Angela Head injects the first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine to Nurse Mary Carter, the first health care worker of SoutheastHEALTH and the region to receive it, at Southeast Hospital on Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2020. (Sarah Yenesel ~ Southeast Missourian)
Nurse Angela Head injects the first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine to Doctor Rajesh Swanimathan, the second health care worker of SoutheastHEALTH and the region to receive it, at Southeast Hospital on Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2020. (Sarah Yenesel ~ Southeast Missourian)
Nurse Angela Head injects the first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine to Nurse Audrey Raechel-Batz, the third health care worker of SoutheastHEALTH and the region to receive it, at Southeast Hospital on Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2020. (Sarah Yenesel ~ Southeast Missourian)

Nurse Angela Head injects the first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine to Doctor Brian Keenan, the fourth health care worker of SoutheastHEALTH and the region to receive it, at Southeast Hospital on Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2020. (Sarah Yenesel ~ Southeast Missourian)
Nurse Angela Head injects the first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine to Nurse Molly Brown, the fifth health care worker of SoutheastHEALTH and the region to receive it, at Southeast Hospital on Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2020. (Sarah Yenesel ~ Southeast Missourian)
Center, Nurse Molly Brown, the fifth person of SoutheastHEALTH to receive the first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine, speaks to the press after receiving it at Southeast Hospital on Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2020. (Sarah Yenesel ~ Southeast Missourian)
Right, Doctor Brian Keenan, the fourth person of SoutheastHEALTH to receive the first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine, speaks to the press after receiving it at Southeast Hospital on Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2020. (Sarah Yenesel ~ Southeast Missourian)