Monday morning, Dec. 14, Governor Jared Polis accepted the first delivery of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine in Colorado. Almost immediately, frontline healthcare workers started receiving the vaccine. One of the first was Dr. Ari Melmed, a Kaiser Permanente emergency medicine physician who works in SCL Health facilities. The Intermountain Jewish News checked in with Dr. Melmed to see how the experience went, what it’s been like working in the medical field during the pandemic, and what impact he thinks the vaccine will have on the coronavirus pandemic in Colorado. IJN: When did you find out you would be receiving the vaccine? Dr. Ari Melmed (AM): Kaiser Permanente has been monitoring the progress of the COVID-19 vaccines closely through the testing and approval phases. When the […]
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