YNHH Hospital Plans To Start Covid-19 Vaccinations Tuesday

Yale New Haven Hospital expects to receive its first shipment of Pfizer Covid-19 vaccines Tuesday morning.

A single box with three ​“pizza trays” with some 2,000 doses are expected to arrive at Bradley International Airport, then be taken by truck to the New Haven main hospital campus.

Later that day the hospital anticipates administering the doses to five employees, then continue the first wave through Wednesday.

As part of the first phase of the state’s vaccination plan, YNHH will first administer the doses to employees most directly in contact with Covid-19 patients. The city will be administering the first wave of its supplies to front-line workers like cops and firefighters. Administrators of senior-care facilities will administer the first wave of doses to elderly residents and to staffers who work with them.

Hartford Hospital received its first batch of vaccines on Monday and began vaccinating frontline workers there.

The governor is predicting that around 1 million front-line workers and elderly residents will have received the necessary two doses of the vaccine by March’s end.