First Doses of COVID-19 Vaccine Arriving at Montgomery County Hospitals This Week
Adventist Health Care Shady Grove Medical Center and Adventist Health Care White Oak Medical Center are expected to receive 975 doses each of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine this week. Those first doses will be given to frontline healthcare workers with the greatest risk of exposure to the virus, according to Allisson Sambataro, public relations and marketing manager at the White Oak facility.
Mary Anderson, spokesperson for Montgomery County’s Health and Human Services Department, said the vaccines are sent by the federal government to area hospitals and do not pass through either the county or the state.
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The D.C. region has surpassed 500,000 confirmed COVID-19 cases Sunday.
The troubling landmark comes as the region prepares both for a coming surge in cases during the holiday season and for the first shipments of the Pfizer vaccine, which was recently approved for emergency use by the Food and Drug Administration. Download our NBC Washington app for iOS or Android to get alerts for local breaking news and weather.
The first shipments of the vaccine headed Sunday from Michigan to 145 distribution centers across the U.S.
About 3 million doses of the vaccine are expected to be sent out. Health care workers and nursing home residents are expected to receive the first shots in the initial weeks of distribution.
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State health officials said another priority is maintaining the vaccine. Many hospitals have the refrigeration or freezer units necessary to maintain this vaccine as a minus-80 (degrees), but also the shipments of the vaccines that will come in should be able to maintain the vaccine at that low temperature, with the dry ice, for a period of time, Maryland Deputy Health Secretary Dr. Jinlene Chan said.
Both the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines require two doses given 21 days apart.
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