COVID Vaccine (MN): First Doses Of Vaccine Officially Administered In The State

By WCCO-TV, CBS Minnesota

December 15, 2020

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — In Minnesota, the first doses of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine have officially been administered Tuesday morning at the Minneapolis VA hospital. The first to get the shot: a 10-year nurse at the hospital.

About 3,000 doses of the vaccine arrived Monday at the Twin Cities hospital in refrigerated boxes.

By Tuesday morning, the first vaccine was officially administered in Minnesota — nine months after the COVID-19 pandemic was declared. Thera Wittie, a 10-year nurse at the Minneapolis VA, was the first to received the vaccine.

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