Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine Arrives In Colorado

(CBS4) -- The Moderna vaccine has arrived in Colorado and the state is not wasting any time getting these vaccines out to the public. The first phase of vaccinations will go to health care workers who deal with coronavirus patients and the staff and residents at long-term care facilities.

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Health officials expect 95,600 doses of the Moderna vaccine to be available. Of those, 12,300 were distributed to 12 facilities on Monday, according to the state health department.

One place that is expected to receive the vaccine is the Fitzsimmons veterans facility -- which is a senior living facility.

All this is part of phase one of the state's plan to distribute the vaccines.

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The second phase of vaccinations will include high risk individuals and essential workers.

The general public is not expected to get a vaccine until the summer.

This is the second emergency vaccine approved by the Food and Drug Administration. The FDA issued an emergency use authorization for the Pfizer vaccine earlier this month and more than 12,000 doses were administered in Colorado in the first week it was available.

Rocky Mountain Regional VA Medical Center registered nurse Patricia Stamper looks at a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine before administering it to a health care worker at the hospital on December 16, 2020 in Aurora, Colorado. The Eastern Colorado VA Health Care System was chosen as one of 37 VA centers around the country to receive a shipment of the vaccine because of their ability to store the vaccine at extremely cold temperatures and vaccinate a large number of people. (Photo by Michael Ciaglo/Getty Images)

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