VIDEO: The Outer Banks Hospital administers first COVID-19 vaccines in Dare County

[photo courtesy The Outer Banks Hospital]

Dr. Daniel Dwyer, frontline healthcare worker and Chief of Staff at The Outer Banks Hospital was administered the very first COVID-19 vaccine in Dare County by occupational health nurse Julie Tillett on Friday.

The first doses of the coronavirus vaccine, produced by Pfizer and BioNTech, were delivered to the hospital in Nags Head earlier in the day, and frontline healthcare workers began receiving them this afternoon.

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