{"id":586,"date":"2020-12-14T23:29:21","date_gmt":"2020-12-14T23:29:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=586"},"modified":"2020-12-14T23:29:21","modified_gmt":"2020-12-14T23:29:21","slug":"us-begins-covid-19-vaccinations-in-largest-campaign-in-countrys-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=586","title":{"rendered":"US begins COVID-19 vaccinations in largest campaign in country’s history"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The largest\u00a0vaccination<\/a>\u00a0campaign in US history has gotten underway as health workers in select hospitals rolled up their sleeves for shots to protect them from\u00a0COVID-19<\/a>\u00a0and start beating back the pandemic \u2014 a day of optimism even as the nation’s death toll neared 300,000.<\/div>\n
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“I feel hopeful today. Relieved,” said critical case nurse Sandra Lindsay after getting a shot in the arm at Long Island Jewish Medical Centre in New York.<\/div>\n
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Shipments of precious frozen vials of vaccine made by Pfizer Inc. and its German partner BioNTech began arriving at hospitals around the country Monday.<\/div>\n
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“This is the light at the end of the tunnel. But it’s a long tunnel,” New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said as he watched Lindsay’s vaccination via video.<\/div>\n
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Several other countries also have OK’d the vaccine, including the UK, which started vaccinating last week.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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For health care workers who, along with nursing home residents, will be first in line for vaccination, hope is tempered by grief and the sheer exhaustion of months spent battling a coronavirus that still is surging in the US and around the world.<\/div>\n
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“This is mile 24 of a marathon. People are fatigued. But we also recognise that this end is in sight,” said Dr Chris Dale of Swedish Health Services in Seattle.<\/div>\n
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Dry ice is poured into a box containing the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine as it is prepared to be shipped at the Pfizer Global Supply Kalamazoo manufacturing plant in Portage, Michigan.\u00a0(AP)<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Packed in dry ice to stay at ultra-frozen temperatures, the first of nearly 3 million doses being shipped in staggered batches this week made their way by truck and by plane around the country Sunday from Pfizer’s Kalamazoo, Michigan, factory. Once they arrive at distribution centres, each state directs where the doses go next.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Some hospitals across the country spent the weekend tracking their packages, refreshing FedEx and UPS websites for clues.<\/div>\n
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More of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine will arrive each week. And later this week, the FDA will decide whether to green light the world’s second rigorously studied COVID-19 vaccine, made by Moderna Inc.<\/div>\n
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