UW Health receives 1st COVID-19 vaccine doses

Monday morning, the University of Wisconsin Health system received its first doses of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine.

‘Relieved’: US health workers start getting COVID-19 vaccine

UW Health said its first employees would receive the vaccine Monday afternoon, in line with federal and state guidelines to vaccinate front-line health care workers.

Shipments of the vaccine arrived in states across the country on Monday, with the Minneapolis VA Health Care System and Olmsted Medical Center receiving some of Minnesota’s first vaccine doses.

1st doses of COVID-19 vaccine arrive in Minnesota