List Of Colorado Hospitals That Are Set To Receive 1st Vaccines

Colorado received its first shipment of the Pfizer vaccine on Monday morning, and some front-line health care workers have already received their first dose of the vaccination.

Kevin Londrigan, a respiratory therapist who works at UCHealth Medical Center of the Rockies, received Colorado's very first vaccine.

The state ordered 46,800 doses in its first Pfizer vaccine shipment and 95,600 doses in its first Moderna shipment.

Gov. Jared Polis issued a letter Sunday to Colorado hospitals that urged them to begin the vaccinations within 72 hours of receipt.

Colorado is preparing to distribute the COVID-19 vaccine in three phases over the next nine months.

High-risk health care workers — those who have direct contact with COVID-19 patients for 15 minutes or more — will be the first to receive the vaccine.

For someone to be fully vaccinated, they must receive two doses, 21 days apart. Then two weeks after their second dose, they will be immune, public health officials said.

Some Colorado hospitals don't have the ability to store the Pfizer vaccine, which needs to be kept at extremely low temperatures; however, the Moderna vaccine does not need to be stored at the ultra-cold temperatures, which allows it to be distributed even further, especially to rural areas, public health officials said.

Here's a list of how many initial doses Colorado health care centers are set to receive:

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