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According to the New York Times, the first shipment of approximately 2.9 million doses of vaccine will be distributed in the US next week.
The emergency license of the COVID-19 vaccine is considered a historic turning point in the context of the medical crisis that has claimed the lives of more than 290,000 Americans. With this decision, the US became the sixth country, after the UK, Bahrain, Canada, Saudi Arabia and Mexico, to grant the right to use the COVID-19 vaccine. The European Union is expected to make a similar move in the coming weeks.
The decision was made after US President Donald Trump on the morning of December 11 pressured the FDA to more quickly authorize the COVID-19 vaccine and criticize the FDA’s delay.
COVID-19 cases are currently on the rise in the US, where the daily death toll from COVID-19 crossed the 3,000 threshold earlier this week. President Trump held a vaccine conference earlier this week to announce the US administration’s program to accelerate delivery of vaccines once licensed.
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