Early Sunday morning the first shipment of the vaccine left Pfizer's Portage Kalamazoo manufacturing facility inroute to the Gerald R. Ford International Airport Sunday morning.
An Airbus 300 carrying the vaccine took off at 11-am, One hour and thirty minutes later it arrived in Memphis Tennessee one of many distribution centers.
More shipment are scheduled to leave the Portage facility today Monday.
Thornapple Manor Administrator Don Haney told WBCH News, "so far we have gotten the information that we need, the forms, the prep material. But we do not have a date as of yet, a specific date for the vaccine."
The distribution plan begins with:
Phase 1A would include health care workers and people who work and live in long-term care facilities.
Phase 1B would include workers in essential industries.
Phase 1C would include people 18 and older who are at high risk of severe COVID-19 cases due to pre-existing conditions.
Phase 2 would be a rollout to the general public.