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Vaccine D-Day begins with rollout of first 2.9 million doses Only 2.9 million doses of the Pfizer vaccine will be delivered in the first shipment, a fraction of what’s needed to vaccinate health-care workers and nursing home residents, who are atop the priority list. December 14, 2020 8:22:56 am A truck loaded with the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine leaves the Pfizer Global Supply Kalamazoo manufacturing plant in Portage, Mich., Sunday, Dec. 13, 2020. (AP Photo/Morry Gash, Pool) The first Covid-19 vaccine arrived in record time, an essential step toward...

Dec 12, 2020, 8:31 PM – Updated on Dec 13, 2020, 9:06 PM Word Count: 1627 (Bloomberg) — If successful, the plan could help end a pandemic that’s killed almost 300,000 Americans in the 47 weeks since the first case was recorded. FedEx Corp. and United Parcel Service Inc. picked up the first shipment of the Pfizer Inc.-BioNTech SE vaccines from a Kalamazoo, Michigan, factory on Sunday morning. The first deliveries are scheduled for Monday morning and the initial lot will be in all 50 states by Wednesday, according to Gustave Perna, the army general who serves as chief operating officer fo...

Vaccine D-Day Begins With Rollout of First 2.9 Million Doses Bloomberg 12/13/2020 Robert Langreth, John Tozzi and Angelica LaVito © Bloomberg General Gustave Perna, chief operating officer for the Defense Department's Project Warp Speed, speaks during an Operation Warp Speed vaccine summit at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2020. (Bloomberg) -- The first Covid-19 vaccine arrived in record time, an essential step toward ending the pandemic. Now comes the hard part: producing enough shots to immunize the majority of the U.S. population and th...