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Vaccines for Frontline workers, Carilion executives a step towards “normalcy” > With the arrival of the first shipments of the Pfizer and then the Moderna COVID vaccines, Carilion Clinic doctors, nurses and other frontline workers began receiving the first of two vaccine shots needed in midDecember. A second followed 3-4 weeks later. Carilion executives and department heads (including President and CEO Nancy
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Agee, Chief Medical Officer Dr. Patrice Weiss and Dr. Anthony Baffoe-Bonnie, Medical Director, Infection Prevention and Control) also received those shots publicly – to show their confidence in their safety and to encourage the public to get the COVID vaccine when they come up on the priority list. Registered nurse Mary Rogers, who works in the COVID ICU unit at Carilion, was one of the first employees to be vaccinated. Rogers said she was “excited,” to be part of the rollout process. “I strongly support this and I believe in it. I hope in the [near] future to be able to return to some sense of normalcy. That is what I’m banking on.”
