Jessica Cejnar / Monday, Dec. 21, 2020 @ 4:49 p.m. / COVID-19, Health (Updated) Public Health Couriers Fetch Del Norte's First COVID-19 Vaccine Doses From Humboldt, Distributes Them To Hospital, Skilled Nursing Staff Del Norte’s first doses of the COVID-19 vaccine trickled into the county and was distributed to the local hospital and skilled nursing facility Monday. But because the Pfizer vaccine has to be stored at extremely cold temperatures, Public Health Officer Dr. Warren Rehwaldt and other Public Health Branch staff had to go to Humboldt County to fetch the first portion of the county’s allocation. To make good use of the doses it has, the Public Health Branch delivered the vaccine to a few other key people “further down the list,” in addition to staff at Sutter Coast Hospital and Lantern Health Crescent City, Rehwaldt told the