Liam Mcburney - Pa Images / Getty Images A nurse from the Belfast Trust Vaccine Team prepares to inject care home staff with the Pfizer/BioNtech COVID-19 vaccine. The journalists at BuzzFeed News are proud to bring you trustworthy and relevant reporting about the coronavirus. To help keep this news free, and sign up for our newsletter,Incoming. The FDA on Friday night authorized the first COVID-19 vaccine in the US, marking the start of a historic nationwide campaign to distribute shots needed to control a pandemic that’s killing 3,000 people a day. The authorization came one day after an overwhelming vote of confidence from the FDA’s advisory panel. In a 17-4 vote, with one abstention, the independent panel of medical safety experts found the vaccine’s two shots, which are likely 95% effective in preventing the disease, had benefits that outweighed their risks for people 16 and older.