The first delivery of COVID-19 vaccine to North Memorial Health Hospital arrived in the early morning hours of Dec. 15, in what spokesperson Katy Sullivan called âa momentous step forward in the fight against COVID for healthcare workers and all Minnesotans.â
North Memorial CEO Kevin Croston welcomed the arrival of 975 doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, which is currently the only authorized and recommended vaccine to prevent COVID-19 in the United States.
Croston marveled at the technology it took to get the vaccine, which requires a near-consistent environmental temperature of -94 degrees Fahrenheit, delivered to the hospital.
âAll of the effort it took to get it here, with just all the technology in the box, and then you think about the technology it is going to take to get this into everybody â we have a lot of work to do yet,â he said. âThis is just the beginning.â