Pfizer Coronavirus Vaccine in San Diego: Scripps Health Will Roll Out Vaccine Thursday NBC 7 Staff
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As Part of Phase 1a of the vaccine rollout plan, frontline health care workers and staff will be the first to receive the COVID-19 vaccine.
San Diego County received a 28,000-dose supply of the vaccine on the week of Dec. 14, while a local military health center received an undisclosed amount of doses.
Scripps Health is set to start administering the vaccine on Dec. 17; other facilities that have already done so this week include: Naval Medical Center San Diego; Rady Children s Hospital; UC San Diego Health; Palomar Health
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First nurses get COVID-19 vaccine at Rady Childrenâs and Naval Medical Center San Diego
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SAN DIEGO (KGTV)â As hospitals across San Diego County receive boxes of Pfizerâs highly anticipated COVID-19 vaccine, Naval Medical Center San Diego (NMCSD) was the first to start vaccinating frontline healthcare workers.
âIt was exciting; it felt like a big moment. It kind of feels like it has this energy, of perhaps the beginning of the final chapter of what has felt like a long year for most of us,â said Lt. J.G. Catherine Senoyuit, a staff nurse in the Emergency Department at NMCSD.
The UC San Diego Health Pharmacy team unpacks the first shipment of Pfizer-BioNtech COVID-19 vaccine, moving the doses into storage in -80 freezers, in an area they call the “Freezer Pharm.”
SAN DIEGO (KUSI) – Another 2,925 of Pfizer’s long-awaited COVID-19 vaccines arrived at UC San Diego Health for front line healthcare workers this morning.
The vaccine estimated to be 95% effective at preventing COVID-19 recently received emergency use authorization from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Vaccine distribution is coordinated through the California Department of Public Health and public health departments, governed by recommendations from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices. Following these recommendations, health care workers are receiving the first available vaccinations.