Mad River Community Hospital Occupational Health Supervisor Yolanda Stevens received the first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine Dec. 15 from Tina Wood, nurse manager of Critical Care Services.
As local case numbers continued to soar, Humboldt County Public Health, with much hope and fanfare, distributed the first local doses of the new Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine last week in what officials predict will begin a steady, if slow, march out of this pandemic.
But many questions about the vaccine and how it will be distributed locally remain.
"This has never been done before," said Humboldt County Health Officer Ian Hoffman. "This is medical history. We are literally building the ship as we sail it."