Buffalo, N.Y. (WBEN) - The COVID-19 vaccine is here and being administered to frontline health care workers in Buffalo.
Kaleida Health received its first supply of COVID-19 vaccines yesterday and began vaccinations late Monday afternoon for physicians, nurses and staff that work in high risk areas across the health system.
Shawn Covell, a critical care nurse in the intensive care unit at Buffalo General Medical Center, was the first frontline healthcare worker at Kaleida Health to receive the vaccine. Laura Goetz, a nurse in Employee Health at Buffalo General Medical Center administered the first COVID-19 vaccine.
Kaleida Health says vaccination will be voluntary and will be offered first to employees, providers and residents working in high risk areas and then opened up to those in other areas as vaccine supply allows.
Vaccines will be a two-part process, which will be 21 days apart.
At Roswell Park, Dr. Phillip McCarthy, Director of the Transplant and Cellular Therapy Center, was the first to receive the vaccination there.
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