PHILADELPHIA - Philadelphia officials provide COVID-19 response update as the first doses of the Pfizer vaccine arrived Monday just days after it was approved for emergency use.Nationwide, shipments of precious frozen vials of vaccine made by Pfizer Inc.
and its German partner BioNTech began arriving at hospitals.More shipments of the vaccine are planned to arrive through Wednesday with vaccinations to begin as early Wednesday as well.
Officials believe that the Moderna vaccine will be able to be given alongside the Pfizer vaccine as soon as next week. Those whom are more exposed to COVID-19 due to the nature of their work, those whom are more likely to be more severely sickened by COVID-19, and those whom have a higher risk of spreading.
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