Jeanna Brewer, an RN at The Medical Center of Aurora, was the first to receive the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine, Dec. 16, 2020, at the hospital. TMCA received 375 doses of the Pfizer vaccine in their first delivery and expect 2100 doses of the Moderna vaccine next week, pending the FDA’s approval for Emergency Use Authorization. Photo by PHILIP B. POSTON/Sentinel Colorado 
A vial of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine sits in wait to be administered to frontline medical workers at The Medical Center of Aurora. TMCA received 375 Pfizer vaccines in the first delivery and expect 2100 doses of Moderna’s vaccine next week. . Photo by PHILIP B. POSTON/Sentinel Colorado 
The Medical Center of Aurora began inoculating their front line workers on Dec. 16, 2020. TMCA received 375 doses of the Pfizer vaccine in the first delivery and expect 2100 doses of the Moderna vaccine next week, pending the FDA’s approval for emergency use authorization.Photo by PHILIP B. POSTON/Sentinel Colorado 
Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines sit in a cooler, Dec, 16, 2020, at the Medical Center of Aurora. TMCA received 375 vaccines in the first delivery and expect 2100 doses of the Moderna vaccine next week, pending the FDA’s approval for emergency use authorization.Photo by PHILIP B. POSTON/Sentinel Colorado 
COVID-19 vaccines are loaded into syringes before inoculations Dec. 16, 2020, at the Medical Center of Aurora. TMCA received 375 doses of the Pfizer vaccine in the first delivery and expect 2100 doses of the Moderna vaccine next week, pending the FDA’s approval for emergency use authorization.Photo by PHILIP B. POSTON/Sentinel Colorado 
COVID-19 vaccines are loaded into syringes before inoculations Dec. 16, 2020, at The Medical Center of Aurora. TMCA received 375 vaccines in the first delivery of the Pfizer vaccine and expect 2100 doses from Moderna next week, pending the FDA’s approval of the EUA. Photo by PHILIP B. POSTON/Sentinel Colorado 
Angeline Romasanta was the second to receive a COVID-19 vaccine, Dec. 16, 2020 at The Medical Center of Aurora. TMCA received 375 Pfizer vaccines in the first delivery and expect 2100 doses of Moderna’s vaccine next week. . Photo by PHILIP B. POSTON/Sentinel Colorado 
Jeanna Brewer, an RN at the Medical Center of Aurora, was the first to receive the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine, Dec. 16, 2020, at the hospital. TMCA received 375 Pfizer vaccines in the first delivery and expect 2100 doses of Moderna’s vaccine next week. . Photo by PHILIP B. POSTON/Sentinel Colorado
AURORA | The buzz of anticipation was palpable Wednesday afternoon in a small conference room at The Medical Center of Aurora. Less than 100 steps from the hospital lobby, a shot of hope appeared in the depths of the coronavirus pandemic.
Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines began rolling out in Colorado and the rest of the United States on Monday. They rolled into Aurora Wednesday afternoon. Frontline medical workers at the hospital began receiving their shots.
Jeanna Brewer, a registered nurse in the Progressive Care Unit, worked in the COVID ward when the virus began to surge in March. She was first in line this week to get inoculated. First-tiered employees at TMCA are those that work in the ICU, Emergency Departments, Respiratory Therapy and COVID units, and beyond that, it was based on these first-tier employees availability for the first of their necessary shots.
As many as 85 front-line medical workers received the vaccine on the first day of distribution at TMCA, and the remaining 290 Pfizer vaccines will be administered by Friday, according to hospital officials.Â
TMCA received 375 vaccines from Pfizer and expect 2,100 next week of the Moderna vaccine, pending the FDA’s approval for emergency use authorization.Â