The first shipments of a COVID-19 vaccine for widespread use in the United States headed Sunday from Michigan to distribution centers across the country, with the first shots expected to be given in the coming week to health care workers and at nursing homes.
Shipments of the Pfizer vaccine will set in motion the biggest vaccination effort in American history at a critical juncture of the pandemic that has killed 1.6 million and sickened 71 million worldwide.
Initially, about 3 million doses were expected to be sent out, and the priority is health care workers and nursing home residents as infections, hospitalizations and deaths soar in the U.S. With numbers likely to get worse over the holidays, the vaccine is offering a bright spot in the fight against the pandemic that s killed nearly 300,000 Americans.
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For Dr. Luda Khait-Vlisides, an ER doctor at DMC Sinai-Grace in Detroit, this moment is a big deal.
“Holy sh , this is actually going to happen! And I am so excited about it,” said Khait-Vlisides last week, as the country awaited the distribution of the first COVID-19 vaccines. Hospital workers on general medical floors, emergency departments, and ICU units are the first in line.
“My husband and I have been talking about this for (a) very, very long (time). He s also in health care, she said. We’re just excited to be able to protect ourselves, our children, and hopefully, try to protect our community.”