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On Dec. 14, 2020, transportation worker Carlos Rosa was the first of 10 employees at the University of Rochester Medical Center to receive their first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine. Monroe County officials said Monday they are expecting another 1,500 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine to arrive this week an amount they said was enough to fulfill previously scheduled appointments of essential workers.
Word of the incoming vaccinations was announced in a joint statement by County Executive Adam Bello and county Health Commissioner Michael Mendoza, days after Mendoza had warned that the county s supply would be depleted by Martin Luther King Jr. Day.