UpdatedMon, Dec 14, 2020 at 11:05 am PT Replies(170) The first shipments of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine arrive at LAX on Sunday night. (Los Angeles World Airports) LOS ANGELES, CA — Californians will begin receiving the first coronavirus vaccinations Monday morning, the day after the state set new records for COVID-19 hospitalizations. Hundreds of thousands of Pfizer's two-dose coronavirus vaccines arrived in California on Sunday night, and medical workers up and down the state will be inoculated within hours afterward. The state is expected to receive more than 300,000 vaccines this week, far short of the total needed to inoculate California's 2.4 million health care workers. By month's end, state officials expect to receive more than 2 million vaccines — enough to inoculate 1 million health care workers. The shortage means that doses will be meted out over the course of months, with the average resident unlikely to have access until spring or summer.