Where will Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine go when it arrives in South Florida?

Miami, Fla. – Get the first dose of Pfizer’s Govt-19 vaccine in South Florida early next week.

The two-dose vaccine was approved by the Food and Drug Administration on Friday for emergency use.

Florida is expected to receive 179,400 doses of the vaccine, which will go to five Florida hospital systems, including Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami-Date County and Memorial West in Browd County. Some of the levels coming to the Jackson Memorial will then continue at 13 hospitals in Miami-Date County.

60,000 vials of the vaccine will go directly to Walkreens and CVS dispensaries across the state, while 20,000 will be allocated to a pilot program that will include staff and residents at the Auxiliary Living and Skilled Nursing facilities in Browth County and Phineas County.

MD Thomas McCulloso, interim chief medical officer of Memorial West, says the development is good news.

“It’s really something we’ve been waiting for a long time and we’re so glad it happened so quickly,” he said.

(See the fact sheet that will be given to the recipients before the vaccine is given.)

The country’s first COVID-19 vaccine will begin arriving in the states on Monday, U.S. officials said Saturday. Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azhar told the ABC that the FDA would work with Pfizer to send the vaccine so that vaccinations could begin by Monday or Tuesday next week.

The general public will not be vaccinated until the spring or summer of 2021.

The Florida Department of Health estimates that Florida has more than 1 million confirmed corona virus cases and that 19,785 residents have died.

On Saturday morning, the FDA held a press conference on allowing the vaccine to be used urgently.