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AdvertisementFirst shipment of Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine arrives at Boston Medical CenterHide TranscriptShow TranscriptARRIVE TOMORROW. AT UMASS MEMORIAL IN WORCESTER THEY’VE BEEN RUNNING DRILLS. FOR DISTRIBUTING WHAT CAN ONLY BE CONSIDERED LIQUID GOLD AT JOSH GOLD. -- LIQUID GOLD. &gt;&gt; SHE TOLD ME IT THE COVID 19 VACCINES AND SHE WAS VERY HAPPY TO BRING THEM OVER TEST. JULIE: BUT AT BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER, ALL 35 POUNDS ARRIVED BRIGHT AND EARLY MONDAY. FEDEX DROPPED OFF THE VACCINES AT THE LOADING DOCK, WITHOUT ANY FANFARE. &gt;&gt; ONCE I RECEIVED THE PACKAGES THIS MORNING I BROUGHT IT UP HERE. &gt;&gt; WE GOT NOTICE YESTERDAY THAT IT WAS COMING TODAY. THE FEDEX DELIVERY SAID 10:30, BUT WE WERE PREPARED TO GET IT AT ANY TIME TODAY -- TODAY. JULIE: NEARLY 2,000 DOSES OF THE UNPRECEDENTED VACCINE ARRIVED AND NOW AWAITS DISTRIBUTION ON WEDNESDAY. &gt;&gt; SENDING OUT INFORMATION TO EMPLOYEES WHICH WE PLAN ON BEING ABLE TO DO LATER TODAY WHO ARE ON THE LIST OF PEOPLE WHO CAN GET THE VACCINE. THESE ARE PEOPLE WHO THE STATE PRIORITIZATION CRITERIA. JULIE: THE VACCINE IS GOOD FOR 5 DAYS IF REFRIGERATED AS LONG AS THEY REMAIN UNOPENED. &gt;&gt; WE DON’T WANT TO LOSE ANY VACCINES, WE WANT TO MAKE SURE ANYTHING LEFT OVER AT THE END OF THE DAY, IF THERE IS, FROM THE CLINIC COMES BACK DOWN TO THE PHARMACY FOR STORAGE AND SAFE KEEPING. JULIE: TUFTS MEDICAL CENTER WAS SUPPOSED TO RECEIVE ITS SHIPMENT TODAY BY MIDDAY. IT IS EXPEAdvertisementFirst shipment of Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine arrives at Boston Medical CenterThe first shipments of Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine has arrived in Massachusetts, and hospitals are preparing to start administering the first vaccines this week. The VA Bedford Healthcare System's shipment of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine arrived Monday morning and the facility began to administer doses within a few hours. Margaret Klessens, a 96-year-old resident of the Community Living Center in the Edith Nourse Rogers Memorial Veterans Hospital in Bedford, received the shot Monday at 12:07 p.m., the VA Bedford Healthcare System announced in a statement. A staff member was vaccinated 13 minutes later. Most of the first shots will go to front-line health care workers.Boston Medical Center said Monday it received its first shipment of 1,950 doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID19 vaccine."Beginning Wednesday, we will begin the first wave of vaccinations to front line health care workers, a group including doctors and nurses from our ICU and Emergency Department and patient floors that treat COVID-19 patients, but just as importantly, employees from environmental and support services, and other crucial positions that work in COVID-positive patient areas," BMC said in a statement.“The emergency room, the ICU, we have designated positive COVID floors. So that can be anyone from the nurse and physician, which everybody knows about, to the EVS technician, the person who cleans the room,” said BMC Chief Pharmacy Officer David Twitchell. “We don't want to lose track of any vaccines. We want to make sure anything left over at the end of the day, if there is, from the clinic, comes back down to the pharmacy for storage and safekeeping,” said BMC Associate Chief Pharmacy Officer Joy Vreeland.Tufts Medical Center was expected to get its first shipment Monday, but the medical center said the delivery was delayed until Tuesday. Tufts plans to begin administering vaccinations for staff beginning Wednesday. They're opening it up to anyone who works at the medical center -- which totals about 5,500 people.Hospital officials said they plan to administer 1,500 doses by the end of the year.“You don’t have to hold half your supply in reserve and save that for the next 21 days. You’re expected to give out the full 975 first dose, knowing there’s another one coming,” said Nick Duncan, director of emergency management at Tufts Medical Center.Because Tufts has a research component, they already have several ultra-cold freezers registering temperatures at -80 degrees. The ultra-cold freezers are required to store the Pfizer vaccine.Tufts plans to have everyone immunized who wants to be by sometime in March.In anticipation of the vaccine, Gov. Charlie Baker has announced a phased timeline for distribution in Massachusetts.Clinical and nonclinical health care workers doing direct and COVID-19-facing care will receive the first doses in the state as part of Phase 1 of the COVID-19 Vaccine Timeline, which was approved by federal officials.Residents in long-term care facilities, police, fire and emergency medical personnel, those working in congregate care settings, such as shelters and correctional facilities, and home-based health care workers would then be given priority.The general public will not have access to the vaccine until mid-April, which is phase three in the vaccination timeline.Massachusetts is slated to get around 60,000 doses of the Pfizer vaccine in its first stage out of 2.9 million doses throughout the nation.The first shipments of Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine has arrived in Massachusetts, and hospitals are preparing to start administering the first vaccines this week. The VA Bedford Healthcare System's shipment of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine arrived Monday morning and the facility .AdvertisementMargaret Klessens, a 96-year-old resident of the Community Living Center in the Edith Nourse Rogers Memorial Veterans Hospital in Bedford, received the shot Monday at 12:07 p.m., the VA Bedford Healthcare System announced in a statement. A staff member was vaccinated 13 minutes later.Most of the first shots will go to front-line health care workers.Boston Medical Center said Monday it received its first shipment of 1,950 doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID19 vaccine."Beginning Wednesday, we will begin the first wave of vaccinations to front line health care workers, a group including doctors and nurses from our ICU and Emergency Department and patient floors that treat COVID-19 patients, but just as importantly, employees from environmental and support services, and other crucial positions that work in COVID-positive patient areas," BMC said in a statement.“The emergency room, the ICU, we have designated positive COVID floors. So that can be anyone from the nurse and physician, which everybody knows about, to the EVS technician, the person who cleans the room,” said BMC Chief Pharmacy Officer David Twitchell.“We don't want to lose track of any vaccines. We want to make sure anything left over at the end of the day, if there is, from the clinic, comes back down to the pharmacy for storage and safekeeping,” said BMC Associate Chief Pharmacy Officer Joy Vreeland.Tufts Medical Center was expected to get its first shipment Monday, but the medical center said the delivery was delayed until Tuesday. Tufts plans to begin administering vaccinations for staff beginning Wednesday. They're opening it up to anyone who works at the medical center -- which totals about 5,500 people.Hospital officials said they plan to administer 1,500 doses by the end of the year.“You don’t have to hold half your supply in reserve and save that for the next 21 days. You’re expected to give out the full 975 first dose, knowing there’s another one coming,” said Nick Duncan, director of emergency management at Tufts Medical Center.Because Tufts has a research component, they already have several ultra-cold freezers registering temperatures at -80 degrees. The ultra-cold freezers are required to store the Pfizer vaccine.Tufts plans to have everyone immunized who wants to be by sometime in March.In anticipation of the vaccine, Gov. Charlie Baker has announced a .Clinical and nonclinical health care workers doing direct and COVID-19-facing care will receive the first doses in the state as part of Phase 1 of the COVID-19 Vaccine Timeline, which was approved by federal officials.Residents in long-term care facilities, police, fire and emergency medical personnel, those working in congregate care settings, such as shelters and correctional facilities, and home-based health care workers would then be given priority.The general public will not have access to the vaccine until mid-April, which is phase three in the vaccination timeline.Massachusetts is slated to get around 60,000 doses of the Pfizer vaccine in its first stage out of 2.9 million doses throughout the nation.Loading more articles...

AdvertisementFirst shipment of Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine arrives at Boston Medical CenterHide TranscriptShow TranscriptARRIVE TOMORROW. AT UMASS MEMORIAL IN WORCESTER THEY’VE BEEN RUNNING DRILLS. FOR DISTRIBUTING WHAT CAN ONLY BE CONSIDERED LIQUID GOLD AT JOSH GOLD. -- LIQUID GOLD. &gt;&gt; SHE TOLD ME IT THE COVID 19 VACCINES AND SHE WAS VERY HAPPY TO BRING THEM OVER TEST. JULIE: BUT AT BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER, ALL 35 POUNDS ARRIVED BRIGHT AND EARLY MONDAY. FEDEX DROPPED OFF THE VACCINES AT THE LOADING DOCK, WITHOUT ANY FANFARE. &gt;&gt; ONCE I RECEIVED THE PACKAGES THIS MORNING I BROUGHT IT...

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