Moderna vaccine arrives at Aspirus Wausau. Image courtesy: Aspirus Health
WAUSAU, WI (WSAU-WAOW) – Aspirus Wausau received its first doses of the Moderna vaccine at 8:30 Tuesday morning.
It is being stored in an in-patient freezer, and will be to be given to frontline workers starting this afternoon.
Marshfield Clinic frontline workers last week became some of the first to get COVID-19 vaccinations in North Central Wisconsin. The health system was designated as a distribution site because it has the capacity to store the Pfizer vaccine in the required ultra-cold temperatures.
Gov. Tony Evers announced yesterday that the state is receiving 16,000 initial doses of the Moderna vaccine this week, with a total of 100,000 doses over the next several weeks. Aspirus received 5,000 doses.
According to state health officials, between the Moderna allocation and the announced Pfizer allocations so far, the state will be receiving 184,825 doses of COVID-19 vaccinations. As of December 20, just over 10,000 Wisconsinites have been vaccinated.
Last week Aspirus hospitals in Michigan started vaccinations with the Pfizer vaccine.
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