“The early testing is proving very promising and there’s a discussion about it coming out with an emergency FDA approval so we can get started on it sooner.”
Those are the words of Holy Family Memorial’s Chief Nursing Officer, Tom Veeser, on the news of high success rates of COVID-19 vaccines.
Veeser tells SeehaferNews.com they have a lot of enthusiasm about this and all healthcare officials are putting together vaccination plans, so they can vaccinate effectively and efficiently.
We asked about distribution priorities and when he sees an end to this pandemic, to which Veeser said, “As the vaccines come out it’ll go to healthcare workers, then the vulnerable and it’ll be mid-winter before it goes to the general public.”
Veeser explained, “we’re looking at least until Spring before we have this under control.”
As for the healthcare workers themselves, Veeser said, “The healthcare providers at Holy Family Memorial, across the state and really around the midwest are tired. We’ve been preparing, managing, and organizing for 9-months now. Every hospital has been losing doctors and nurses either from needing to be quarantined and or being sick.”
The HFM official says “They’re tired, they’re working extra and they have more sick patients than normal and have to cover for colleagues who are out, so it’s been a stressful Fall for their healthcare team.”
