Arkansas Frontline Workers Begin Receiving COVID-19 Vaccine

KUAF | By Michael Hibblen

Published December 15, 2020 at 1:43 PM CST

One dose of the vaccine is shown during a press conference Monday at the Arkansas Department of Health.

The process of vaccinating Arkansas healthcare workers against COVID-19 got underway Monday after the state received its first shipment of a vaccine from Pfizer. Within hours, frontline employees at the Arkansas Department of Health were rolling up their sleeves to get a shot. This comes only a few days after Governor Asa Hutchinson's address to the state urging Arkansans to continue to take precautions through the holidays.

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As News Director, Michael Hibblen oversees daily news coverage for KUAR. He handles assignments for the news staff, helps develop story ideas and edits copy. Michael isresponsible for starting a news-sharing partnership between public radio stations in Arkansas in 2009 which laid the foundation for what became Arkansas Public Media. He is also a regular panelist and fill-in host on AETN's Arkansas Week, where journalists discuss issues in the news.

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