San Diego County received its first delivery of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine on Monday. This initial batch of vaccines will are headed to UC San Diego and Tri-City medical centers on Monday and Rady Children's Hospital on Tuesday.
28,000 doses of the Pfizer vaccine have been allocated to the county, which is roughly 72% of the amount needed for first-tier recipients including first responder and military recipients.
San Diego County's Vaccine Distribution Plan:
Phase 1A: The first phase of distribution will be to critical care health workers, followed by long-term care facility residents and employees. While the first batch of doses will not cover all of the people in this category, the state expects another round of vaccines to follow about three weeks after the first.
Phase 1B: After everyone in the Phase 1 groups are vaccinated, and when more doses are available, the next group to receive vaccines will be essential workers, including: education, food and agriculture workers, police, firefighters, correctional officers, transportation workers, etc.
Phase 1C: The next phase of priority will be to vaccinate adults with underlying medical conditions and people over 65 years old.
Phase 2: Children and young adults under the age of 30, and then critical workers not included in Phase 1.
Phase 3: People of all ages who live in the United States.
Allocation of the vaccine was determined by the federal Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), which advises the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
The phases could be revised by the ACIP if they determine some groups are at higher risk.