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| On the morning of the 27th, a medical center official, who is the 1st Pfizer vaccination, is getting a vaccine at the National Medical Center’s Central Vaccination Center in Euljiro, Jung-gu, Seoul. 2021.2.27/News1 © News1 Photo Sharing Foundation |
“After being beaten, I feel more comfortable. I really desperately want the vaccine to get rid of Corona 19 quickly.”
On the 27th, the first day of Pfizer vaccination for a novel coronavirus infection (Corona 19), the Central Vaccination Center at the National Medical Center in Jung-gu, Seoul. Ms. Mi-kyung Jung of the Environmental Cleansing Institute, the facility team at the National Medical Center, who is the first person inoculated with Pfizer’s vaccine, said.
Jeong said, “It wasn’t as painful as the general vaccination, as well as the intramuscular injection,” and “I was tense when I was hit, but I didn’t feel like it was an injection at the moment I was hit.”
On that day, Joanna, a nurse at the National Medical Center’s Infection Intensive Care Unit, who received the Pfizer vaccine, said, “I feel more reassuring after getting the vaccine.”
The subjects of the vaccinations stopped by the pre-vaccination room before getting the vaccine. The doctor advised the subjects, “Check for fever or symptoms for about 30 minutes, and if there is no problem, you can go home. Do not do sauna or sweating as you need to protect the injection site.”
Subjects who visited the inoculation room submitted pre-written preliminary information to the medical staff. The preliminary table contains questions to confirm whether you have received any other vaccinations within the last 14 days, have you ever suffered from a vaccine allergic reaction, or have you ever been diagnosed with Corona 19 infection.
The nurse said to the vaccinated person, “I’m going to put it on the deltoid muscle.” “There may be some pain. It’s tingling.”
The nurse who gave the injection slowly asked the person to be inoculated, “Do not rub hard, go to the waiting room and wait,” and “If you have dizziness while waiting for 15 minutes, please tell me.”
Those who got the vaccine that day said, “I feel relieved after getting the vaccination,” saying that they did not feel any abnormal symptoms.
Son Hong-seok, a nurse who received the vaccine, said, “(Before getting the vaccine) I was nervous, but when I was right, it was no different from the influenza (flu) vaccine I got last year.”
Na-young Choi, a nurse who gave the vaccine, said, “It’s not much different from other vaccines,” he said. “It’s just that the syringe is soft.”
Myung-don Oh, head of the Central Vaccination Center at the National Medical Center, said, “The most important thing about the Pfizer vaccine is the temperature,” he said. “I practiced a lot of cold chain maintenance with more than 5 rehearsals.
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| On the morning of the morning of the 27th, when the Pfizer vaccination for the treatment of Corona 19 patients began, medical staff are dispensing the Pfizer vaccine into syringes at a sterile workbench (Cleanbench) in the Central Vaccination Center at the National Central Medical Center in Jung-gu, Seoul. 2021.2.27/News1 © News1 Photo Sharing Foundation |
While outsiders were restricted from entering the vaccination center, there was tension in the medical center. More than 20 police officers were guarding the vicinity of the medical center, and medical staff and medical staff in a hospital dedicated to Corona 19 in the metropolitan area were seen walking in and out of the vaccination center.
The Pfizer vaccine that is vaccinated on this day is part of the initial volume of 58,500 people (117,000 doses) introduced through the COVAX facility, an international vaccine supply organization. The vaccine arrived at Incheon International Airport on the 24th at 11:58 am on the A330-300 flight of Korean Air.
Pfizer vaccine is an mRNA (messenger ribonucleic acid) vaccine, which must be distributed and stored at a cryogenic temperature around -75 degrees Celsius and requires pretreatment such as thawing and dilution before use. The vaccine was already taken out of the freezer the day before and thawing was completed, and on this day, the process of subdividing the thawed vial (a vial for injection) into a syringe could be confirmed.
In the injection preparation room, the medical staff put their arms in the ten thousandths of the clean bench (aseptic workbench) and turned over the thawed vial, and divided them into syringes until all the vaccine drugs were drawn. Next, I checked the volume of subdivided syringes, and put 4 syringes in one. One bottle was transported to one inoculation room.
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| On the morning of the 27th, Corona 19 medical staff who received the Corona 19 Pfizer vaccine are waiting in the observation room at the Central Vaccination Center of the National Medical Center in Euljiro, Jung-gu, Seoul. 2021.2.27/News1 © News1 Photo Sharing Foundation |
On that day, 300 medical staff will receive the Pfizer vaccine at the vaccination center. There are 199 workers at the National Medical Center and 101 workers at the corona 19 treatment hospital in the metropolitan area.
As of 10:30 am, 72 employees of the National Medical Center were inoculated. It is reported that none of the vaccinated subjects did not get the vaccine that day due to reasons such as high fever. In the afternoon, vaccinations for workers in the corona 19 treatment hospital in the metropolitan area begin.
Outside the vaccination center, I was able to meet medical personnel who came out after vaccination. Jeong-in Jeong (40), a specialist in emergency medicine at the National Medical Center, said, “I felt less sick than the usual vaccine, and there was no significant difference from other vaccines.”
Han Seung-hoon (29), a nurse in the emergency room of the National Medical Center, said, “Through group immunization, the risk of corona will also decrease.”
Lee Sun-mi, 35, a nurse in the emergency room of the National Medical Center said, “It wasn’t much different from other vaccines. I waited for about 15 minutes, but I don’t feel any symptoms.”
On the morning of that day, Prime Minister Jeong Sye-gyun visited the vaccination center to observe the Pfizer vaccination site and encouraged medical personnel and other related personnel.
Prime Minister Jung emphasized, “I will not let go of tension until the end so that we can achieve the government’s goal of forming collective immunity in November, and so that all citizens can participate in vaccination with peace of mind.”