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Ohio should receive 420,000 COVID-19 vaccines by Christmas, Gov. Mike DeWine said during a Tuesday news conference.
That includes 130,000 additional doses from Pfizer and an expected 123,000 from Moderna next week, DeWine said. We will continue to get vaccines the rest of the month, he said.
Local health departments, he added, should start receiving vaccines next week.
The Pfizer vaccine is the only one to so far receive emergency approval from the Food and Drug Administration. The vaccine from Massachusetts-based Moderna is expected to be approved in the coming days as well.
As the first coronavirus vaccines arrived at OhioHealth s Riverside Methodist Hospital on Tuesday, Lt. Gov. Jon Husted made a plea for health care workers and the public to get the shot as it becomes available.
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OhioHealth vaccinates its first frontline workers for COVID-19
received their first coronavirus vaccines on Wednesday.
OhioHealth s Riverside Methodist Hospital administered its first two doses of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine around 8 a.m. The first two shots of the roughly 30 to 40 vaccinations were doled out on a stage of a hospital auditorium and met with a round of applause from health care workers looking on.
Wednesday s shots marked the beginning of what is likely to be one of the largest vaccination campaigns in history. OhioHealth is planning to offer the vaccine to workers at each of its hospitals as more doses become available, president and CEO Stephen E. Markovich said.
At least one other shipment of vaccines arrived Monday, delivered to Michigan Medicine at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, with more shipments expected in coming days, hospital and state leaders have said.
The vaccine could be the turning point toward a full reopening of the economy, though health leaders have been quick to note that the vaccine likely won’t be ready for distribution to the general public until at least spring once vaccines have been given to highest priority groups first.
But many may remain more reluctant to embrace a vaccine that was given emergency clearance by the federal government over the weekend for a virus that has now killed more than 300,000 in the United States.
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Tamara Dus, director of health services at the University Health Network, injects a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at The Michener Institute in Toronto on Monday.(Frank Gunn/The Canadian Press)