SEATTLE, Wash. — The first COVID-19 vaccines have been administered in Washington state.
Frontline workers at UW Medicine received the vaccinations shortly after 11 a.m. Tuesday. The first doses were delivered to Seattle Monday and are expected to arrive in Spokane by Wednesday.
Providence and MultiCare have not said when they expect to begin administering the vaccines locally, but did say they will be given to area healthcare workers who are at the highest-risk of the virus.
Vaccinations are underway across the country. The first vaccine administered in the U.S. went to a critical care nurse in New York on Monday.
Shots are being prioritized to those on the front lines of the pandemic and will soon be administered to people in long-term care facilities. They are expected to be available to the general public in the spring.
WA DOH POOL PHOTO - UWMC Montlake campus Pharmacy Manager Christine Meyer, right, and Derek Pohlmeyer, Pharmacy Administration Resident, place a box containing the Pfizer coronavirus vaccines into a vehicle headed to the UW Medicines other hospital campuses on Monday morning, December 14, 2020. These are among the first to be distributed in Washington state.
Photographed on December 14, 2020.
WA DOH POOL PHOTO - UWMC Montlake campus Pharmacy Administration Resident Derek Pohlmeyer, left, and UWMC Pharmacy Director Michael Alwan transport a box containing the Pfizer coronavirus vaccines toward a waiting vehicle headed to the UW Medicines other hospital campuses on Monday morning, December 14, 2020. These are among the first to be distributed in Washington state.
Photographed on December 14, 2020.
WA DOH POOL PHOTO - UWMC Pharmacy Manager Christine Meyer puts a tray of 975 doses of Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine into the deep freeze after the vaccine arrived at UW Medicine’s Montlake campus Monday morning, December 14, 2020. These are among the first to be distributed in Washington state.
A total of 3,900 doses arrived at the UW on Monday that will be distributed among UW Medicine’s four hospital campuses.
Photographed on December 14, 2020.
WA DOH POOL PHOTO - UWMC Pharmacy Manager Christine Meyer puts a tray of 975 doses of Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine into the deep freeze after the vaccine arrived at UW Medicine’s Montlake campus Monday morning, December 14, 2020. These are among the first to be distributed in Washington state.
A total of 3,900 doses arrived at the UW on Monday that will be distributed among UW Medicine’s four hospital campuses.
Photographed on December 14, 2020.
