UT Health San Antonio administers COVID-19 vaccine to frontline healthcare workers
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SAN ANTONIO – A day following a monumental delivery of the COVID-19 vaccine, UT Health San Antonio will begin to administer the drug to frontline healthcare workers.
Doctors, nurses and care team workers in San Antonio will roll up their sleeves and receive their first doses of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine starting on Tuesday. The hospital will vaccinate its workers during a live event from 1-3 p.m. on Tuesday.
The Pfizer COVID-19 regimen includes a second dose administered in three weeks. Workers at UT Health San Antonio will receive their second dose over several days in January, according to UT Health.
UT Health San Antonio receives first doses of COVID-19 vaccine; more expected at other hospitals this week
By week’s end, nearly 30,000 doses are expected at 11 locations in San Antonio
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UT Health San Antonio received the first doses of Pfizer s COVID-19 vaccine on Dec. 14, 2020. (KSAT)
SAN ANTONIO – Nearly 6,000 doses of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine were delivered to UT Health San Antonio Monday morning, the facility confirmed in a news release.
The doses are among the first to arrive at hospitals in Texas since the vaccine was approved by federal regulators last week. UT Health San Antonio is one of only four sites in Texas to have the vaccine delivered on Monday, according to the news release.
When they could, health care workers in South Florida on Thursday tuned into an all important meeting of the FDA panel of independent experts who had an important question placed before them. Today we will be considering whether to make available to millions of Americans an as yet investigational vaccine that has been developed, tested and reviewed in record time, the FDA s Dr. Doran Fink said.
Florida International University infectious disease expert Dr. Aileen Marty said every aspect of the vaccine implementation is being looked at extremely carefully.
Marty also said that researchers revealed during the zoom meeting it appears more Americans have been exposed to COVID-19 than is on the official books.