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Health and Human Services officials and the Pentagon are holding a joint conference Monday on the Trump administration’s Operation Warp Speed Covid-19 vaccination program as Americans receive some of the first few shots.
The first doses of a Pfizer vaccine with BioNTech were shipped to the US over the weekend. Trucks carrying boxes of vaccine doses left Pfizer’s Kalamazoo, Michigan manufacturing facility on Sunday and should arrive on Monday, according to Pfizer.
New York’s Northwell Health administered the state’s first dose of vaccine just before 9:30 a.m. ET. Sandra Lindsay, a The critical care nurse at the Long Island Jewish Medical Center received the first shot, which earned the audience applause.
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