Here s a breakdown of the number of vaccine vials expected to arrive in the Delaware Valley:
-In Pennsylvania, 83 state hospitals will administer 97,500 immunizations to hospital workers.
-Philadelphia will get its own direct shipment of 15,000 doses from the Centers for Disease Control
-New Jersey expects to obtain 76,000 vials of the Pfizer vaccine by Tuesday
-Delaware will get nearly 9,000 vaccine doses in its first shipment. Operation Warp Speed already has the second-dose vials in storage to be delivered for patients three weeks after their first immunization shot.
More good news is likely to come, says Pennsylvania Health Secretary Dr. Rachel Levine. If the FDA and the CDC approve the Moderna vaccine, we ll also be getting shipments of the Moderna vaccines next week, says Dr. Levine.
By The Associated Press
With some Americans now paying the price for what they did over Thanksgiving and falling sick with COVID-19, health officials are warning people begging them, even not to make the same mistake during the Christmas and New Year’s season.
“It’s a surge above the existing surge,” said Ali Mokdad, a professor of health metrics sciences at the University of Washington in Seattle. “Quite honestly, it’s a warning sign for all of us.”
Across the country, contact tracers and emergency room doctors are hearing repeatedly from new coronavirus patients that they socialized over Thanksgiving with people outside their households, despite emphatic public-health warnings to stay home and keep their distance from others.
Philadelphia hospitals receive first doses of Pfizer vaccine Monday
Jeff Cole explains what it means to have local hospitals receive coronavirus vaccines
PHILADELPHIA - Some Philadelphia hospitals have received their first doses of the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine, just days after it was approved for emergency use.
Shipments of precious frozen vials of vaccine made by Pfizer Inc. and its German partner BioNTech began arriving at hospitals around the country Monday.
Dr. Michelle Chester holds a vial of the Covid-19 vaccine at Long Island Jewish Medical Center, on December 14, 2020 in the Queens borough of New York. (Photo by Mark Lennihan / POOL / AFP) (Photo by MARK LENNIHAN/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)
One local hospital official called this a pivotal moment in the fight against COVID-19. It s a cautious optimism, said Temple University Health System chief medical officer Dr. Tony Reed.
Temple University Health System is preparing to receive and start giving vaccines on Wednesday. Its staff has been divided into four tiers, and the first 3,000 doses will go to those in tier one. All who were in direct COVID care units or in areas that see a high volume of COVID patients, such as the emergency department or the crisis response unit, said Reed.
The vaccine could come with some flu-like side effects. Temple Health is advising those who get vaccinated to try to schedule the shot towards the end of their workweek in case they experience side effects.
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