Henrico Co. administers 100,000th COVID-19 vaccine
Henrico County administers 100,000th vaccination By Hannah Eason | April 3, 2021 at 2:23 PM EDT - Updated April 3 at 7:24 PM
HENRICO COUNTY, Va. (WWBT) - More than two months after Henrico County began administering COVID-19 vaccines at the Richmond Raceway, the locality reached a new milestone: 100,000 shots administered.
Tom Leonard, Henrico resident and owner of Tom Leonard’s Farmer’s Market, received the 100,000th dose on Saturday.
“I’m very grateful to be here to have my second shot,” Leonard said. “I feel good about this.”
Leonard said he was fortunate that none of his Glen Allen employees got severely ill from the virus while keeping his store open during the pandemic.
The vaccines need to be reconstituted and made up, said Westwood Pharmacy owner and pharmacist Oley. We re reconstituting the Pfizer vaccines with Sodium Chloride, said Pharmacy Coordinator Dr. Shubhro Pal. Saline is put into the vaccine to mix it up, and once it is mixed up, the vials go over to the drawing tables where they pull up 0.3 ml for each dose.
According to Pal, each vial contains about six doses of the COVID-19 vaccine and expires after six hours. At the drawing tables, volunteers draw the vaccine up into the syringes for the dosage from the vials that were labeled with the time they were reconstituted, explained the drawing table coordinator. After they label them with the time they need to be used by, they re ready to go.