Sentara Healthcare has received its first shipment of 11,700 doses of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine on Monday.
This vaccine requires two doses spaced three weeks apart and Sentara says they will receive an additional shipment with the second dose of the vaccine at a later time.
Sentara’s initial supply is limited and vaccines are being shared across the system.
The healthcare system says they are following VDH recommendations and limiting initial vaccine distribution to a priority group that includes emergency department staff, ICUs, COVID patient units, respiratory unit staff and hospital staff who provide services in these areas (e.g., ESD, food service, staff who go into patient rooms), among others.
Sentara will stand up vaccine clinics where the vaccine will be administered to its priority groups in the hospital setting with the highest risk of COVID-19 exposure later this week.
A lot of Healthcare workers do not want the vaccine. No one knows the long term effects of it.
Sentara says they will receive an additional shipment with the second dose of the vaccine at a later time.
Better be within 3 weeks of the first shot or you just got poisoned for nothing