As the first 327,000 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine begin arriving in California, most San Joaquin Valley hospitals expect their initial shipments within the next few days. Some hospitals, however, have already begun receiving them. In a video posted to Twitter, employees of Valley Children’s Hospital applauded next to a freezer set to negative 78 degrees Celsius , the temperature colder than Antarctica’s annual average that’s needed to store the vaccine produced by Pfizer and BioNTech. The Madera County hospital was one of the first to receive the 17,000 doses in this first batch slated for the Valley. Madera County has received 975 doses, of which 535 will remain with Valley Children’s. Fresno County has also received its shipment of 7,800 doses. Bakersfield’s three Dignity Health hospitals are expecting their first doses on Thursday or Friday. In a media call, Dignity Health Central California Chief Medical Officer Dr. Emmal Kothary explained the hospital’s vaccine priority list
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