SSM Health To Vaccinate St. Louis County's First Responders

St. Louis MO

28 January, 2021

10:08 AM

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CBS St. Louis January 28, 2021 St. Louis County has reached an agreement with SSM Health to vaccinate first responders faster after frustrations from police officers over coronavirus vaccine prioritization. The agreement between the county and SSM aims to vaccinate as many as 4,000 first responders. [READ: 'Simply too slow;' hundreds of St. Louis County officers still await COVID-19 vaccine] They'll start receiving doses Monday morning. The first three days of appointments have already been booked. The department said roughly one-tenth of the county's officers have contracted COVID-19 and many more have had to quarantine.