Health officials in Gwinnett County became the first people in the county to receive the new COVID-19 vaccine developed by Pfizer this past week.
Officials from the Gwinnett, Newton and Rockdale health district announced they received their first shipment of the vaccine, nearly 2,000 doses of it, early Wednesday morning â making them the first people in Gwinnett to receive their supply. Gwinnett, Newton and Rockdale Health District Director Dr. Audrey Arona became one of the first people in the district to receive the vaccine after she helped administer it to a handful of staff members at a press conference at the Gwinnett Board of Health Office in Lawrenceville.