Updated on December 15, 2020 at 1:45 pm
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Hospitals and health centers in the Bay Area are expecting tens of thousands of doses of a coronavirus vaccine this week.
Health care workers as well as residents and employees at long-term care facilities are the first groups eligible for the vaccinations.
Shipments of the Pfizer vaccine is underway, with 2.9 million doses expected to go out this week. California is expected to receive 327,000 doses of the Pfizer vaccine this month.
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San Francisco Department of Health Director Dr. Grant Colfax said the city received 2,000 vessels of the Pfizer vaccine at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital on Monday morning.