Hawaii State Department of Health issued the following announcement on Dec. 25.
Kaiser Permanente Hawaii is playing a leading role in COVID-19 care and vaccine distribution in our state. They received their first shipment of 975 doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine last week Wednesday, and started administering shots the following day.
The Hawai‘i Department of Health asked Collis Tarquin, MD, Chief of Infectious Diseases with Kaiser Permanente Hawaii, for his insight on how hospitals prepared to administer their first COVID-19 vaccine. He introduces "Bertha" – Kaiser Permanente's 700 pound, ultra-cold freezer – and answers the tough questions: How are healthcare workers responding to the vaccine? What are some challenges Hawaii’s hospitals and healthcare workers will face in the distribution of vaccine?
Read the Q&A here: https://hawaiicovid19.com/vaccinedistributioncollis/
Original source can be found here.