More COVID-19 Vaccinations Arrive in Southland, but Virus Fight Goes on By City News Service Los Angeles UPDATED 7:30 PM ET Dec. 15, 2020 PUBLISHED 12:46 PM ET Dec. 14, 2020 PUBLISHED 12:46 PM EST Dec. 14, 2020
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LOS ANGELES (CNS) More Los Angeles County hospitals started receiving shipments of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine Tuesday, one day after initial doses were administered at a Kaiser Permanente facility in Hollywood.
Vaccinations were due to arrive Tuesday and Wednesday at the rest of the nine sites in the county equipped with the ultra-cold-storage facilities needed for the Pfizer medication. The vaccines will then be farmed out to 83 acute-care hospitals countywide for administration to health care workers, who are at the top of the priority list to receive the initial doses.
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Medical staff, Helen Cordova, from left, Kim Taylor, Brian Thompson, Raul Aguilar, and Angela Balam pose for photos after receiving the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center in Los Angeles, Monday, Dec. 14, 2020. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
LOS ANGELES, CA Hospitals across Los Angeles will begin receiving and administering their first doses of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine Tuesday and Wednesday, the first step in an ambitious plan to inoculate six million Angelenos in six months.
A nurse received one of the state s first coronavirus vaccines Monday at a Kaiser Permanente facility in Hollywood, and authorities hope to repeat the process for thousands of medical care professionals at nine hospitals across the county this week. The Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine poses a unique challenge because it must be stored in ultra-cold-storage facilities. Nine sites across the county equipped with the ultra-cold-storage facilities will farm out the vaccines
COVID-19 Vaccinations Begin In Southern California
LOS ANGELES (CNS) With her co-workers cheering her on, an intensive care unit (ICU) nurse at Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Dec. 14 received one of the first doses in the state of a long-awaited vaccine to prevent COVID-19.
Helen Cordova sat patiently and joked with other medical personnel as she was given the Pfizer vaccine administered with a shot in her right arm. Thousands of doses of the vaccine arrived at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) on the night of Dec. 13, marking the first step in a massive undertaking that will see the county attempt to vaccinate 6 million people in six months, beginning with critical health care workers.
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