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It’s a light at the end of the tunnel for what has been a challenging year — the first doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine have arrived in Orange County.
On Wednesday, five staff members were selected from Providence St. Joseph’s Hospital in Orange to receive the first vaccinations in Orange County from Pfizer-BioNTech. Jeremy Zoch, chief executive officer at St. Joseph Hospital of Orange, said the doses arrived just hours before a joint news conference at the hospital.
Each inoculation was streamed live and greeted with a round of applause.
“It’s been a long road. A lot [of people] have worked really hard to get us to this point. [We’re] very, very grateful to Pfizer and, soon, Moderna, for what they have done,” said Erik Wexler, the chief executive for Providence’s Southern California region. “Soon, we will be protecting all of our caregivers in our community and eradicating this horrific pandemic.”