Spectrum Health Lakeland Vaccinating Employees From COVID-19

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The shots are being administered to staff at Spectrum Health Lakeland to provide the COVID-19 vaccine. CEO and president Dr. Loren Hamel says they started giving them Wednesday night.

“Our first vaccine went to a pulmonologist who just happened to get there first,” says Hamel. He adds they now feel like they have “finally turned the corner from just a defensive strategy around COVID-19 to an offensive strategy where we can actually prevent the disease. It may take months to do that.”

Hamel says he will be vaccinated, but not until it’s his turn.

Image courtesy Spectrum Health Lakeland of a doctor preparing the COVID-19 vaccination in St. Joseph.