The first Ohioans were injected with a COVID-19 vaccine Monday at Ohio State University s Wexner Medical Center, marking what many see as the beginning of the end of the deadly pandemic.
The vaccine arrived in a brown UPS truck at the medical center around 9:15 a.m. Gov. Mike DeWine and First Lady Fran DeWine waited outside the hospital s loading docks for the truck s arrival.
In total, Ohio State received 975 doses of the Pfizer vaccine Monday, with another 975 to arrive in the next few weeks.
The medical center immunized about 30 high-risk frontline health care workers Monday morning.
One of them was Dr. Meghana Moodabagil, a resident physician in emergency and internal medicine. Moodabagil knew she d get the first dose of the two-shot vaccine Monday but she didn t know walking into work that she d be one of the very first in Ohio and the nation.
San Bernardino County to receive 15,600 coronavirus vaccine doses next week
Victorville Daily Press
Thousands of health care workers in San Bernardino County will receive their initial doses of the coronavirus vaccine next week, officials said Friday, offering a bit of good news as cases continue to surge throughout the county, state and country.
The county will receive 15,600 doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine on Tuesday with weekly distributions afterwards, according to Andrew Goldfrach, leader of the county’s vaccination task force. California is scheduled to receive 327,000 initial doses.
“We’re no longer months away, we’re no longer weeks away, we’re now days away,” he said at a press conference Friday.
3:32 am UTC Dec. 12, 2020
In what is hoped to be the beginning of the end of America s COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Friday night authorized the first vaccine to prevent the disease.
It was developed faster than any previously approved vaccine in the United States – not by compromising safety or accepting a mediocre vaccine as some feared – but by spending billions of taxpayer dollars and taking advantage of recent scientific advances.
The vaccine could start to be delivered into people s arms as soon as Monday, if not earlier. About 2.9 million frontline health care workers and nursing home residents are expected to receive the vaccine in the first few days.