At VCU Health, stay-at-home employees have been vaccinated, but med students have not
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Gov. Northam reviewing initial vaccine shipment. (Photo courtesy governor s office)
State officials say they now expect to get far fewer doses of the coronavirus vaccine this month than previously thought.
Virginia initially expected to get about 480,000 doses of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine by the end of the year. That would have covered first vaccinations for nearly all of the state s 500,000 healthcare workers and nursing home residents. But on Friday, health officials revised down their estimates by more than 100,000 doses after Operation Warp Speed, the federal vaccine program, notified them of the change.
“The Virginia Department of Health was informed late yesterday by Operation Warp Speed that, like other states, Virginia’s estimated allocation of COVID-19 vaccine doses will be less than initially planned for the next few weeks,” the department said in a press release. “Virginia is now planning to receive 370,650 doses of vaccine in December 2020 from two manufact
George Copeland Jr. | 12/17/2020, 6 p.m. Dr. Audrey Roberson reacts after receiving a COVID-19 vaccine Wednesday from nurse Veronica Nolden at VCU Health. Gov. Ralph S. Northam applauds in the background. Dr. Roberson, a nurse manager of the medical respiratory intensive care unit, was the first front line medical worker at VCU Health to receive the Pfizer vaccine. Photo by Kevin Morley/VCU University Relations
Dr. Audrey Roberson misses her family.
The nurse manager of VCU Healthâs Medical Respiratory Intensive Care Unit, Dr. Roberson was one of the first health workers at VCU Medical Center in Downtown to care for COVID-19 patients and has been on the front lines of the efforts to address the pandemicâs spread in Virginia.