Dignity Health Mark Twain Medical Center in San Andreas is preparing for a shipment of more than 400 doses of Pfizer s COVID-19 vaccine allotted to Calaveras County. File photo.
Sufficient doses to vaccinate all local health care providers and EMS responders against COVID-19 are expected to arrive in Calaveras County by the weekâs end.
Gov. Gavin Newsom announced the first Californians to be vaccinated on Monday after the state received its first 327,600 doses of the Pfizer vaccine earlier in the day. An additional 672,000 doses of the Moderna vaccine, which is nearing Food and Drug Administration approval, are expected to arrive in the coming weeks.