Photos: Nursing home residents receive first Moderna vaccines
Residents and staff members of the Cottages of Lake St. Louis received some of the first doses of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine on Monday, Dec. 28, 2020.Â
Photos by Robert Cohen, rcohen@post-dispatch.com
Walgreens pharmacist Reetika Puri gets ready to vaccinate Marion Kuefner, 93, with one of the first doses of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine for residents and staff at the Cottages of Lake St. Louis on Monday, Dec. 28, 2020. Samantha Maher, a technician with Walgreens, assists Puri. Photo by Robert Cohen, rcohen@post-dispatch.com
Walgreens pharmacist Reetika Puri, left, gives a vaccine to Philip Moore, 100, who receives his dose of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine in the Cottages of Lake St. Louis on Monday, Dec. 28, 2020. Moore, a veteran of the Army Air Corps, is retired from McDonnell Douglas. Puri is assisted by technician Samantha Maher. Photo by Robert Cohen, rcohen@post-dispatch.com
Brandi Smith, administrator at the Cottages of Lake St. Louis gets vaccinated by Walgreens pharmacist Molly Hood as the first dose of Moderna COVID-19 vaccine arrived for staff and residents on Monday, Dec. 28, 2020. Smith lost her father to the virus on Dec. 19. His funeral service was two days ago. Photo by Robert Cohen, rcohen@post-dispatch.com
Walgreens pharmacist Molly Hood draws a dose of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine for a staff member at the Cottages of Lake St. Louis on Monday, Dec. 28, 2020. Residents and staff got their first dose of the vaccine, with a second to be given in four weeks. Photo by Robert Cohen, rcohen@post-dispatch.com
Walgreens pharmacist Reetika Puri, left, draws a vaccine for Philip Moore, 100, who receives his dose of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine in the Cottages of Lake St. Louis on Monday, Dec. 28, 2020. Moore, a veteran of the Army Air Corps, is retired from McDonnell Douglas. Puri is assisted by technician Samantha Maher. Photo by Robert Cohen, rcohen@post-dispatch.com
Walgreens pharmacist Reetika Puri vaccinates Marion Kuefner, 93, with one of the first doses of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine for residents and staff at the Cottages of Lake St. Louis on Monday, Dec. 28, 2020. Samantha Maher, a technician with Walgreens, assists Puri. Photo by Robert Cohen, rcohen@post-dispatch.com
Philip Moore, 100, waves to the media watching through a window after he received his dose of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine at his home in the Cottages of Lake St. Louis on Monday, Dec. 28, 2020. Moore, a veteran of the Army Air Corps, is retired from McDonnell Douglas. Photo by Robert Cohen, rcohen@post-dispatch.com
Robert Cohen
Robert Cohen is a photographer at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
Large-scale COVID-19 vaccinations rolled out on Monday for Missouri's long-term care facility residents and staff.