In what’s hoped to be a turning point for the pandemic, Arkansas began administering a vaccine Monday for the coronavirus. It came just hours after Gov. Asa Hutchinson announced the state had received its first shipment of a vaccine made by Pfizer and BioNTech.
Arkansas Surgeon General Dr. Greg Bledsoe and four other health care workers rolled up their sleeves or exposed their shoulders during a press conference at the Arkansas Department of Health to get the shot.
Kelley Garner, Healthcare-Associated Infection program coordinator and epidemiology supervisor at the Arkansas Department of Health, was one of five frontline workers to be given the coronavirus vaccine Monday.
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