Sacramento Pfizer's COVID-19 Vaccine: Who'll Get the First Wave?
Pfizer and BioNTech's mRNA vaccine demonstrate promising results against the COVID-19.
The Sacramento Bee reports that California Governor Gavin Newsom's Office notes in a joint statement that the Western States Scientific Safety Review Workgroup has already completed their simultaneous and detailed review of the federal process.
The Sacramento Bee furthers that the said federal process has established that the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine to be safe and effective against the notorious disease. They added that a separate scientific group in collaboration with California, Oregon, Washington, and Nevada have given its blessing on the said vaccine.
This only means that the state will be welcoming Pfizer vaccine shipments and UC Davis Health is one of the hospitals in Sacramento, to receive the medication against the respiratory disease.
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Who will be in the first wave?
Boxes containing the first shipments of the Pfizer and BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine are unloaded from air shipping containers at UPS Worldport December 13, 2020 in Louisville, Kentucky. Each box contains dry ice to keep the temperature at minus 70 Celsius and contains a GPS tracker.
With this number of expected doses by different organizations, the real question is who among the citizens of Sacramento be included or vaccinated in the first wave. UC Davis Health releases guidelines regarding the arrival of Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine in their facility.
According to UC Davis Health, frontline health care workers such as those who volunteer for the COVID-19 vaccine at the hospital will be among the high-risk groups that will get the first doses of the mRNA vaccine. The hospital also adds that people living in long-term care facilities will also be among the first to get Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine.
In the guideline, the management of UC Davis Health stresses that by the end of December, there will be likely 20 million vaccine doses available in the hospital and the management expects that they will be able to administer the vaccines to 400 people per day.
Pfizer's shipment on Sacramento
In an interview with CBS Sacramento, UC Davis Health CEO, David Lubarsky MD, MBA, notes that the arrival of the mRNA vaccines is the beginning of the end of the war on the pandemic.
Newsom's office added in the interview that California has an initial allocation limited supply of 327,000 of mRNA vaccine in the first shipment. Dr. Lubarsky notes in an interview with The Sacramento Bee that the Sacramento region can get about 30,000 doses in the shipment in the initial wee. Meanwhile, Sacramento County health officials stress in The Sacramento bee that they expect the county to receive 14,625 doses in the first shipment.
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How is the preparation going?
CBS Sacramento pointed out that about three million doses of Pfizer's mRNA vaccine began shipping across the United States from the company's Michigan plant. It is known that the vaccine requires below zero temperature to maintain its efficacy against the coronavirus. UC Davis Health stresses that they have enough storage for the first shipment of the vaccine and more storage is on the way.
The management of the UC DAVIS Health in Sacramento also emphasizes that the freezer that will be used as storage for Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine is big enough to house150,000 doses. Meanwhile, The Sacramento Bee mentions that the second batch of vaccines is expected to arrive in California later in December boosting the state's COVID-19 vaccine allotment to 2.16 million doses.
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