COVID-19 Vaccinations Begin In Southern California

COVID-19 Vaccinations Begin In Southern California
Gov. Gavin Newsom watches as ICU nurse Helen Cordova receives the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center in Los Angeles, Calif., on Dec. 14, 2020. Jae C. Hong-Pool/Getty Images
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LOS ANGELES (CNS)—With her co-workers cheering her on, an intensive care unit (ICU) nurse at Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Dec. 14 received one of the first doses in the state of a long-awaited vaccine to prevent COVID-19.

Helen Cordova sat patiently and joked with other medical personnel as she was given the Pfizer vaccine—administered with a shot in her right arm. Thousands of doses of the vaccine arrived at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) on the night of Dec. 13, marking the first step in a massive undertaking that will see the county attempt to vaccinate 6 million people in six months, beginning with critical health care workers.

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