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Del. receives remaining 7,800 doses of Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine
December 16, 2020
DOVER, Del. – The Delaware Division of Public Health has announced that Delaware received the remaining 7,800 pre-ordered doses of the Pfizer BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine.
The initial 975 doses arrived on Monday at Bayhealth’s Kent County campus in Dover. Governor John Carney and Bayhealth announced on Tuesday that Elisabeth Cote, a progressive care unit nurse at Bayhealth was the first in the state to receive the vaccine.
On the first day of vaccination, Bayhealth administered 88 doses of the vaccine, according to information reported by the health care system.
The latest shipment we’re told arrived at DPH’s warehouse in Kent County on Wednesday, where the doses will be kept at below-freezing temperatures in the state’s ultra-cold storage unit until they are ready to be shipped to their final destinations. Most of these doses will be distributed to the state’s five remaining healthcare sys
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Officials said Delaware, which received 975 of its 8,775 pre-ordered doses from Pfizer, was one of the first states in the nation to receive initial doses of vaccine on Monday.
The Delaware Division of Public Health (DPH), which is coordinating the state s efforts to acquire and distribute the vaccine, expects to receive the remainder of the vaccine doses at its Kent County warehouse on Wednesday.
As the Pfizer vaccine is required to be kept at below-freezing temperatures, officials said DPH will store the doses it receives on Wednesday in its ultra-cold storage unit and will begin scheduling delivery to the remainder of the state s health care systems.
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The staffers were chosen based on possible exposure and any pre-existing conditions.
Thirty Cooper staffers will receive the vaccine Tuesday, with the goal of administering all of the 975 doses in the first batch by next week.
Oliver says she was excited to get the vaccination as it means she ll be able to travel and see her family some day soon. I m like, Oh, I can t believe it I m the first! Okay, I ll get the vaccination, I m going to do it. Because working here in healthcare at Cooper University Hospital, we saw a lot during the first surge of COVID and nobody wants to go through that, nobody, said Nurse Oliver.