Officials at MedStar and LifeBridge Health hospitals are vaccinating health care workers to protect them against COVID-19.|| Coronavirus updates | Maryland's latest numbers | Where to get tested ||Both health care systems received doses of Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine Thursday night.LifeBridge Health on Friday started one of its larger vaccination clinics at Sinai, Northwest and Carroll hospitals for employees who preregistered to receive the vaccine.LifeBridge said it is following guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, as well as the governor's four-stage distribution plan, in deciding who gets the vaccine first."I feel fine and I'm very happy and very proud to have gotten this vaccine. I think this is a major mark for science, and knowing the science behind this, I'm very happy to get it," said Dr. Esti Schabelman, chief medical officer and an emergency physician at Sinai Hospital.LifeBridge health expects to receive 2,900 doses with this first round of vaccinations.MedStar Health on Friday administered the Pfizer vaccine to employees who wanted it at MedStar Franklin Square Medical Center, MedStar Good Samaritan, MedStar Harbor Hospital and MedStar Union Memorial Memorial."Today, you have a lot of our frontline staff from critical care, emergency room, respiratory therapy, and this is the staff that really have been caring for COVID patients from day one," said Bradley Chambers, president of MedStar Good Samaritan and MedStar Union Memorial hospitals. "For them, really to have this opportunity to get a vaccine after 10 months, there's a lot of excitement. There's a lot of relief, there's a lot of just joy in the fact that here we are today and we have this vaccine available. So, I think you can see it in their faces, the excitement."The Maryland Department of Health on Dec. 18 launched its new COVID-19 vaccine information page, which will provide COVID-19 vaccine updates as information continues to evolve. The new page includes information about Maryland COVID-19 vaccine priority groups; vaccine status and dosing information; and resources about vaccine development, clinical studies and emergency use authorization approval.More COVID-19 vaccine FAQs from the Maryland Department of HealthMaryland draft vaccination plan detailsHELPFUL LINKSCOVID-19 DATA: Johns Hopkins | Maryland | en Español | Baltimore CitySPECIAL COVERAGE: Late-breaking updates on the coronavirusGET TESTED: Where and how to get tested for coronavirus in Maryland