In pandemic milestone, UW brings COVID-19 vaccines to frontline health care workers
UW Medicine Newsroom | UW News On Dec. 14, the first vials of COVID-19 vaccines arrived at Harborview Medical Center. Steve Fijalka, director of pharmacy services at UW Medicine, is pictured here taking a case of vaccine vials out of a box packed with dry ice.Mark Stone/University of Washington In a deep and dark December, an eagerly awaited event brightened the early morning in a UW Medicine loading zone. The first shipment of COVID-19 vaccinations had arrived. The 3,900 doses had been marked priority boarding for their FexEx flight to Seattle, after being trucked in insulated, dry ice conta...