IRON RANGE â Coronavirus vaccine doses arrived in some parts of Minnesota on Monday morning, putting the state a step closer to ending the global COVID-19 pandemic, though a widely accessible drug is still months off.
The first doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine were loaded off trucks at Olmsted Medical Center in Rochester, the Minneapolis Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Sanford Bemidji Medical Center and Cass Lake Indian Health Services. Dozens more will receive the vaccine soon to distribute to smaller health care systems, about 118, throughout Minnesota. Essentia Health in northeastern Minnesota expects to begin vaccinating its front-line staff next week, a spokesperson said.
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Sun is coming up as first COVID-19 vaccine shipments arrive in Minnesota, Dakotas
With ceremonial doses of the long-awaited vaccine to be followed by training, with most vaccinations in Minnesota are expected to begin next week, Dec. 21. 4:18 pm, Dec. 14, 2020 ×
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz watched as Seth Warnecke, a FedEx delivery driver, unloaded a box containing 2925 doses of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine to the Minneapolis VA hospital Monday morning, Dec. 14, 2020. (Pool photo: Aaron Lavinsky, Star Tribune)
ROCHESTER, Minn. After months of anticipation, the first doses of an FDA-approved vaccine for the prevention of illness from SARS-CoV-2 arrived in Minnesota and the Dakotas in the early morning hours of Monday, Dec. 14.
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