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United States Pfizer vaccine shipments begin after emergency authorisation
The first trucks carrying a COVID-19 vaccine for widespread use in the United States pulled out of a Michigan manufacturing plant on Sunday, with the shots critical to stopping the nation’s coronavirus outbreak destined to reach states a day later.
Key points:
- The rollout is set to be the biggest vaccination effort in US history
- The US has recorded 16 million cases and is approaching 300,000 deaths
- The vaccine is stored at extremely low temperatures — about -30 degrees Celsius
An assembly line of workers began in the early hours, pulling doses out of a freezer, boxing the vaccine and loading the units onto pallets so they could be placed on trucks at a Pfizer plant in Michigan.
Dry ice, shipping labels and packing tape were on hand as the…
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