Orange County Set to Receive First Shipment of Vaccines by Dec. 16

Gov. Gavin Newsom watches as the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine is prepared by Director of Inpatient Pharmacy David Cheng at Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center in Los Angeles, Calif., on Dec. 14, 2020. Jae C. Hong-Pool/Getty Images

SANTA ANA, Calif. (CNS)—Orange County expects to receive its doses of COVID-19 vaccines manufactured from Pfizer by Dec. 16, with frontline hospital workers getting the first shots, officials said Dec. 15.

“This is the beginning of the end, not the end,” said Andrew Noymer, a University of California–Irvine (UCI) associate professor of population health and disease prevention, as he stressed that it will be some time before the general population receives the vaccines.