PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) — Delaware administered its first COVID-19 vaccine Tuesday morning in Dover.
It went to Elisabeth Cote, a progressive care unit nurse at Bayhealth, where the first 975 doses were delivered for health care workers.
According to Dr. Karyl Rattay, director of the Delaware Division of Public Health, nearly 9,000 more doses will arrive Wednesday for other health systems across the state.
“We’re very excited about that,” she said. “As soon as we get it, we’ll be moving it out to the rest of the health systems in the state to begin to administer their front-line health care workers and really all workers most at risk of getting COVID-19 through their occupation.”
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To anyone who doubts the vaccine’s potential, Rattay assured the health division wouldn’t make it available if they didn’t think it was safe.
“This is really a milestone, I think, in our lifetimes,” she added, “a real time to celebrate the triumph of science, both on the vaccine fronts and the treatment fronts. We are so incredibly excited to have the Pfizer vaccine here in Delaware.”
Another shipment of the Pfizer vaccine is expected next week. The state has also ordered Moderna’s vaccine, which, once approved by the Food and Drug Administration, would also ship next week.