Shipments of the coronavirus vaccine arrived in Washington state on Monday, and frontline workers at hospitals in the state began receiving their first doses the next day.
"The state was expected to receive 62,400 doses of Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine," KING-TV reported.
Staff at the University of Washington Medical Center were among the first to receive the vaccines, and a UW spokesperson told KING-TV that it would go to nurses, doctors, environmental-services staff, and respiratory-care therapists.
The state is expected to receive more than 200,000 vaccines by the end of the month, but the first shipment is "tight," Michele Roberts, acting assistant secretary of the state's Department of Health, told the local news outlet.
"62,000 doses of vaccine is not enough for that whole 1A group, which is at least a half-million people," Roberts said.