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December 16, 2020

Employees of Cape Cod Healthcare have officially become the first people on Cape Cod to receive the COVID-19 vaccine.

At 3:30 PM on Tuesday, December 15, 20 employees at Falmouth Hospital and 30 at Cape Cod Hospital received their first doses of the Pfizer vaccine. Cape Cod Healthcare president and chief executive officer Michael K. Lauf said the hospitals have received a total of 2,925 first doses of the vaccine.

Mr. Lauf said he hopes all the doses they have will be given by Christmas to healthcare workers who work closely with COVID-19 patients, for a total of about 400 people vaccinated daily.

This will only be the first dose of the vaccine. A second dose will have to be received in about a month for it to be effective.

The Pfizer vaccine needs to be kept at below-freezing temperatures. Mr. Lauf said each hospital has a freezer onsite to store the vaccine appropriately.

Workers at Falmouth Hospital prepare to administer the first round of COVID-19 vaccinations. The first people to be vaccinated are healthcare workers who work closely with COVID-19 patients.

The vaccination timeline in Massachusetts runs in three phases, starting with healthcare workers.

The first phase will also include employees at long-term care and assisted living facilities, police and fire personnel, people in congregate care facilities and home-based healthcare workers. This phase will run until about February.

The second phase is slated to run from February through April and includes people with two or more underlying conditions, early childhood educators, transit workers, grocery workers, utility workers, food and agriculture workers, sanitation workers, people who work in public works and public health, adults over the age of 65, and then people with one underlying condition.

The last phase includes the general population and is currently expected to start in April.

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