After the FedEx plane landed Sunday night in Los Angeles to deliver the first batch of Pfizer coronavirus vaccine, Governor Gavin Newsom visited Kaiser Permanente in Hollywood Monday afternoon which will be administering some of the first doses to health care workers.
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti also joined the governor.
ICU nurse Helen Cordova received the shot.
The first shipments of the Pfizer vaccine began to head out Sunday from the East Coast to various distribution centers across the U.S.
California is getting more than 300,000 doses initially. Locally, UCLA Health and Cedars-Sinai will get some of the first supplies over the next couple of days. The first batch of shots could be administered as early as tomorrow at Cedars-Sinai and Wednesday at UCLA health.
Los Angeles County Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer has said an initial allocation of 84,000 doses is anticipated in LA County. The initial rollout will be limited for front line workers and the most vulnerable. For some, wanting to be vaccinated against the killer virus, the wait could be as long as next summer.
Meanwhile, in San Francisco officials with the city’s COVID Command Center said they’re expecting roughly 12,000 doses, which "could arrive as early as December 15."
The vaccine is supposed to be 95 percent effective in treating the virus.
“Federal officials say the first shipments of Pfizer’s vaccine will be staggered, arriving in 145 distribution centers Monday, with an additional 425 sites getting shipments Tuesday, and the remaining 66 on Wednesday. The vaccine, co-developed by German partner BioNTech, is being doled out based on each state’s adult population,” an earlier Associated Press story reported.