By Andreas Yilma, Staff Writer
Waterbury Hospital clinical pharmacist Fabio Caetano shows the COVID-19 vaccine as staff began to administer vaccines Dec. 15 at the hospital. -JIM SHANNON/REPUBLICAN-AMERICAN
The wait for COVID-19 vaccines is over, though it will be a while longer before vaccines are available for the general public.
The state this week received its first shipment of nearly 32,000 doses of the vaccine developed by Pfizer Inc. and its German partner BioNTech. Frontline health care workers at hospitals across the state were the first to receive the vaccine.
Locally, Waterbury Hospital received 975 doses in its first shipment and Saint Mary’s Hospital in Waterbury received 470 doses, the Republican-American reported.