Mercy Medical Center could be one of the first hospitals to get coronavirus vaccine

Coronavirus cases continue to spike each day in Shasta County.

But two vaccines have hopes high that we could soon end this pandemic.

Vaccines have hopes high we could soon end this pandemic.

Action news now reporter ana torrea is live in shasta county.

Anaãwhat's the latest on when the vaccine might be available?

It could be by the end of the year alan&.

Pending fda approval.

Robin schurig our numbers are quite high, and i just want to point out that we are still in the purple tier, but we are well into the purple tier.

Coronavirus cases continuing to spike each day in shasta county&.

Donnell ewert the more people that can get vaccinated, the sooner our community can get back to normal.

Pfizer"(fye-zer) and moderna both created vaccines they claim are about 95 percent effective.

Dr. karen ramstrom once it goes through and they actually meet the benchmarks, for showing the that it's effective and safe, and they submit to the fda, the vaccine is already manufactured and ready for distribution as soon as those hurdles are met shasta county health says mercy medical is one of 7 hospitals the state is looking to place a vaccine when its first available.

Ana stand up* trt ana torrea so how will the vaccine be pushed out to the public?

Public health says, it plans to distribute the vaccine in 3 phases.

Phase 1 includes health care workers and first responders... phase 2 then brings the critical population & other essential workers, and phase 3 is the general population.

Take sot* trt:08 jacob toomey i'm hopeful for our community that we can get this vaccine spread out as quickly as possible, if they had one today ready to go, i would take it that's for sure.

But not everyone is as enthusiastic as jacob toomey take sot* trt:07 greg reimann i would probably wait for a couple weeks and see how it is faring with all the people who are taking it if approved, both the moderna and "pfizer"(fye-zer) vaccines could be available sometime next month..

Reporting live in wide-spread availability isn't expected until spring.