The first shipment of the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine is loaded at a facility in Kalamazoo, Michigan.
Sunday is a historic day in the country’s fight against the coronavirus epidemic.
The first truck to carry the COVID-19 vaccine for widespread use in the United States, a portage on Sunday morning, Mish. A day later.
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The loading process began on Sunday morning. The first wave of deliveries will see 150 locations supplied with Pfizer-Bioentech’s COVID-19 vaccine, and a further 450 sites will see supplies in the second shipment.
The vaccine is due to arrive on Monday morning so health workers can get a shot before administering it.
Shipments of the Pfizer vaccine will attempt the largest vaccination in American history at a critical moment in an epidemic that has killed 1.6 million worldwide and left 71 million sick.
A truck full of Pfizer-Bioentech COVID-19 vaccine, Mitch., Sunday, December 13, 2020 Portage, Mitch. In Pfizer Global Supply has pulled out of the Kalamazoo manufacturing plant. (AP Photo / Mori Gesh, Pool)
The vaccine rollout comes in support of the Trump administration’s massive private-public partnership Operation Operation Speed.
President Trump, who pushed for the Food and Drug Administration to seek approval, said it would take “five years” to find a coronavirus vaccine if he were not president.
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“If I weren’t president? In almost everyone’s opinion, even the enemy, if I weren’t president, you wouldn’t have had the vaccine for five years,” Trump told Fox News’ Brian Kilmade in an interview aired Sunday. “Well, I push the FDA and the companies and get involved like everyone else, like never before.”
Initially, about one million doses were expected to be sent, and health care is a priority for workers and nursing home residents, as U.S. Infections, hospitalizations and deaths increase, with the possibility of worsening over the holidays, the vaccine offers a brilliant opportunity to attend the fight against the epidemic that has killed nearly 300,000 Americans.
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Federal officials say the first shipment of the Pfizer vaccine will be a surprise, arriving at 145 distribution centers on Monday, with an additional 425 sites to be carried on Tuesday, and the remaining 66 on Wednesday. The vaccine, co-developed by German partner Bioentech, is being developed based on the adult population of each state.
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Peter Aitken of Fox News and the Associated Press contributed to the report.
