This shipment is to include 270,700 doses.
The Moderna vaccines do not have to be stored in the ultra-cold conditions required by the Pfizer vaccines.
Hospitals on the list to receive Moderna shipments are:
Fort Walton Beach Medical Center (Okaloosa County)
Twin Cities Hospital (Okaloosa County)
Ascension Sacred Heart, (Escambia, Walton)
Baptist Hospital (Escambia)
The total number of COVID-19 deaths in Okaloosa County stands at 191.
Walton County reported its first death since Dec. 11, bringing the county s death total to 41.
Statewide, cases continue to remain high. DOH reported 11,541 new cases and 122 more verified deaths. The 10-day average of new cases in the state is about 9,700.
Locally, the pandemic continues to pulse through schools and cities as the first doses of the Pfizer vaccine were administered to the staff at Naval Hospital Pensacola on Wednesday.
In Okaloosa County, 170 new cases were reported. The cities most affected were Crestview with 44 new cases, Fort Walton Beach with 50 and Niceville with 23.
The hospital started administering the vaccine Wednesday to frontline medical staff who are expected to come into contact with COVID-19 patients.
The first shipment of vaccines to Pensacola s civilian hospitals comes as Escambia County s COVID-19 numbers are seeing the largest increase since the pandemic began.
Escambia County added 1,167 new cases last week from Dec. 7 to 13, according to the Florida Department of Health. That beat the previous record of 973 new cases reported in a single week that was established just one week prior.
The number of Escambia County patients currently hospitalized for the virus also is reaching levels not seen since the pandemic s height in the summer.
We received the vaccine in numbers adequate to cover the urgent care and the first medical responders and our first responders on the installations that we support as well, Elliot said.
The Department of Defense said last week that 44,000 doses would be distributed at 16 military medical facilities in the first vaccine shipment, and Naval Hospital Pensacola was included in that group.
The military hospital was the first in Northwest Florida to receive doses of the Pfizer vaccine that was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration under an emergency use authorization last week.
More shipments of the vaccine are expected to arrive next week at the area s civilian hospitals.
Naval Medical Center San Diego Gets Service’s First COVID-19 Vaccines
December 15, 2020 5:05 PM
Hospital Corpsman 3rd Class Karsten Foster, left, and Hospital Corpsman 3rd Class Hannah May unloads a shipment of Coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccinations into a freezer at Naval Medical Center Portsmouth (NMCP) on Dec. 15, 2020. US Navy Photo
The Navy’s first doses of the recently approved COVID-19 vaccine arrived at a military hospital in San Diego, a service spokesman said today.
A spokesman for the Navy’s Bureau of Medicine and Surgery told USNI News that the first vaccines went to Naval Medical Center San Diego and would be followed shortly by Naval Hospital Pensacola, Fla.; Naval Medical Center Portsmouth, Va.; and Naval Hospital Jacksonville, Fla.; receiving their first doses today.