COVID-19 vaccine arrives in MO, Mosaic Life Care waits

Is officially here.governor mike parson announcing today the first sight of pfizer's coronavirus vaccine in missouri...parson calling today an "exciting day" and says we will soon start administering the vaccine.

But the vaccine has not yet arrived at mosaic life care kq2's kilee thomas joins us with more.

As covid-19 cases rise across the country- first shipments of pfizer's coronavirus vaccine arriving monday morning straight into the hands of frontline workers.

But here at home- mosaic life care has not received the vaccine yet.

Mosaic says they're waiting to hear when they will get a cut of the 51,000 doses of missouri's first shipment but once they do most of mosaic's frontline caregivers will be getting the vaccine.

"at present, we have surveyed not only our providers, our physicians, our app's, our cna's, our pa's and we have also surveyed our caregivers.

We're getting a very good response and the majority of our caregivers are saying they will take the vaccine.""this technology is not new.

It's been around for a couple of decades, however it is new in this particular setting so we understand why there is some fear out there.

However, the majority of all our caregivers and providers are saying they plan to take the vaccine."

Again- mosaic says those vaccinations are not mandatory but highly encouraged.

While there's been some skepticism surrounding the vaccine-the fda says pfizer's and moderna's covid vaccines are more than 90% effective.and missouri's top health official agrees and says there's nothing to worry about.he and governor parson will be vaccinated.

We will get it the first or second week of january, but would get it tomorrow if i didn't think- i'd rather get a nurse in colombia get it rather than dr. williams says missouri could see it's first set of vaccinations as early as wednesday expecting 220,000 doses of the vaccines around christmas.

Again that first rollout of 51,000 doses of pfizer's vaccine coming this week ... the second dose of 61,000 arriving december 20-26th reporting in studio, kilee thomas kq2 news a winter chill is in the