{"id":3316,"date":"2020-10-15T15:10:10","date_gmt":"2020-10-15T15:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lawtondailynews.com\/?p=3316"},"modified":"2020-10-15T15:10:10","modified_gmt":"2020-10-15T15:10:10","slug":"state-and-local-leaders-hope-to-instill-confidence-in-the-vaccine-as-its-rolled-out-in-southwest-oklahoma-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/enidpost.com\/index.php\/2020\/10\/15\/state-and-local-leaders-hope-to-instill-confidence-in-the-vaccine-as-its-rolled-out-in-southwest-oklahoma-2\/","title":{"rendered":"State and local leaders hope to instill confidence in the vaccine as it\u2019s rolled out in Southwest Oklahoma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LAWTON, Okla.\u00a0\u2013 The first doses of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine to make it to Southwestern Oklahoma were administered in Lawton Wednesday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Governor Kevin Stitt and Health Commissioner Col Lance Frye were among the state and local leaders at Comanche County Memorial Hospital for the historic event.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStanding a little prouder now because we have something to offer and we\u2019re very excited to get this out to everyone,\u201d Col Frye said of the people he works with.<\/p>\n<p>Laura Thomas, a 52-year-old COVID ICU nurse was the first to receive the vaccine. She said she did it to help protect people like her father.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was very excited, and he\u2019s willing to step forward and take it as soon as he can,\u201d Thomas said, \u201cso I thought this is my way to honor him and to do my part to try and help with this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mayor Stan Booker brought powerful memories from his own past, remembering standing in line as a 6-year-old to receive the Sabin vaccine for polio when it was first rolled out.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s etched in my memory doing that,\u201d Mayor Booker said, \u201cand because we turned out as a country to take that vaccine, we wiped out polio in this country. I believe that it\u2019s our patriotic duty to take this vaccine, to change the course of what\u2019s happened, this disruption that we\u2019ve had.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The chief medical officer, Dr. Scott Michener, also took the opportunity to urge his fellow Oklahomans to believe in the science behind the vaccine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re having deaths every single day, I mean, you know the families that it\u2019s destroying, the lives it\u2019s destroying,\u201d Dr. Michener said. \u201cIt\u2019s not just old people, it\u2019s young people as well, so I think you\u2019ll see a lot of healthcare workers take it because they want to step up and they don\u2019t want it to happen to them.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAWTON, Okla.\u00a0\u2013 The first doses of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine to make it to Southwestern Oklahoma were administered in Lawton Wednesday afternoon. 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