First doses of COVID-19 vaccines arrive in Seattle KOMO News Staff
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SEATTLE The first 3,900 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine arrived in Seattle Monday morning, the first of thousands of doses on the way to our state as we hope to turn the corner against the raging pandemic.
Four boxes of the recently-approved Pfizer vaccine arrived packed in dry ice at the University of Washington Medical Center in Seattle.
Each box carries 195 vials; each vial contains enough vaccine for five doses for a total of 975 doses per box. So we re going to take one box out and it s going to go here (at University of Washington Medical Center) and it s going to be loaded into our ultra cold freezer, said Steve Fijalka, UW Medical Center Chief Pharmacy Officer, as they opened their inaugural vaccine shipment in front of news cameras and carefully placed the box inside the freezer at -78 degrees C. Then we re going to go deliver to our other three hospital sites:
Health care workers, staff and residents at long-term care facilities to get vaccine Suzanne Phan, KOMO News Reporter
Health care workers, staff and residents at long-term care facilities to get vaccine
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About 20 million Americans could be vaccinated by the end of the year. In a matter of days, frontline health care workers will be among the first to get it. That includes those who work with COVID-19 patients and those who live in long-term care facilities.
Nurse Jacob Kostecka at Providence St. Peter Hospital in Olympia is working another 12-hour shift. Caption: Health care workers, staff and residents at long-term care facilities to get vaccine