FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
December 15, 2020
Healthcare workers and skilled nursing facility residents will be first to receive the vaccine.
Santa Clara County, CA – The County of Santa Clara received its first 5,850 doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine today, providing a glimmer of hope in the long fight to slow the spread of COVID-19 in the community. This delivery is the first of the initial 17,550 doses allocated to Santa Clara County by the State of California, 230 of which will go to San Benito County per the state’s direction. The remaining doses in the allocation will ship from the manufacturer directly to hospitals around the County and are expected to arrive later this week. These early doses will be for people in the highest risk categories, as set by the state and federal government. This includes front line healthcare workers at acute care hospitals, as well as residents and staff at skilled nursing facilities.