PHILADELPHIA - With Pfizer's coronavirus vaccine on the doorstep of approval from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), local healthcare facilities are hopeful they can begin administering the life-saving vaccine as soon as next week.
As coronavirus cases rise in Pennsylvania, leading to heightened restrictions on indoor dining and crowd capacity, a vaccine could not come soon enough.
Still, the first shots signal the beginning of a daunting task to plunge vaccines into the arms of millions. Healthcare workers and residents in long term care facilities will be first in line to receive the shot, which comes in two doses spaced out three weeks apart.