Oregon hospitals begin first COVID-19 vaccinations: Watch live
Updated Dec 16, 2020;
Posted Dec 16, 2020
OHSU received its first shipment of Pfizer BioNTEch COVID-19 vaccines on Tuesday at the Marquam Hill campus in Southwest Portland. The healthcare giant said it expects to begin vaccinations Wednesday. The shipment includes 975 doses of the vaccines and will be distributed first to health care workers whose primary unit of patient care or assignment is in adult and pediatric emergency care teams, adult intensive care units, the primary acute care units caring for patients with COVID-19, and other areas necessary for the hospital s COVID-19 response, such as our COVID-19 respiratory clinics, drive-through testing sites and testing lab. OHSU also said it would prioritize staffers who are 55 year and older and self-identify as BIPOC.OHSU/Fritz Liedtke
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Oregon hospitals began administering the first COVID-19 vaccines in the state Wednesday morning.
Vaccines were given to health care workers at Legacy Health and Oregon Health & Science University, both in the Portland area, and at Saint Alphonsus Medical Center in Ontario, near the Idaho state line.
Administration of the vaccinations was livestreamed during a news conference with Oregon Gov. Kate Brown. This is truly the moment we have all been waiting for, Brown said.