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.
