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More large Los Angeles County hospitals started receiving shipments of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine today, one day after initial doses were administered at a Kaiser Permanente facility in Hollywood.
Vaccinations are 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.
The vaccine, which received federal approval over the weekend for immediate use, is said to be 95% effective at preventing the virus.
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A worker places boxes containing the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine on a truck to be shipped at the Pfizer Global Supply Kalamazoo manufacturing plant in Portage, Mich., Sunday, Dec. 13, 2020. (AP Photo/Morry Gash, Pool)
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The temperature on a freezer reads -69 degrees Celsius as workers move boxes containing the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine to be shipped at the Pfizer Global Supply Kalamazoo manufacturing plant in Portage, Mich., Sunday, Dec. 13, 2020. (AP Photo/Morry Gash, Pool)
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Boxes containing the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine are prepared to be shipped at the Pfizer Global Supply Kalamazoo manufacturing plant in Portage, Mich., Sunday, Dec. 13, 2020. (AP Photo/Morry Gash, Pool)
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The COVID-19 vaccination arrived in Oregon over the weekend, and Lane County hospitals will receive their first deliveries of it later this week.
There were 35,100 doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine delivered to Oregon, according to an Oregon Health Authority news release Monday. Of those, 10,725 will go to skilled nursing facilities for vaccinations scheduled to start next week.
Legacy Health s locations in Portland and Tualatin were the first to get the vaccine, made by Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech SE. Legacy Health s Holladay Park site in Portland and Meridian Park site in Tualatin each received one package of 975 doses Monday morning.
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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
First COVID-19 vaccines arrive in Oregon
December 15, 2020 GMT
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) The first shipment of Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine has arrived in Oregon.
Health care workers and nursing home residents will be among the first to be vaccinated. The Oregon Health Authority said Monday the first shipment of vaccine was delivered in Portland.
State officials have said they expect to get 35,100 initial doses from Pfizer this week as part of a broader shipment plan.
That COVID-19 vaccine was approved by federal officials last week and on Sunday got the OK from a a review board set up by Washington, Oregon, California and Nevada. The Western States Scientific Safety Review committee examined data from federal officials.