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Dec 14, 2020 12:31pm
Both UPS an FedEx were contracted to ship the first doses of the COVID-19 vaccine to sites around the country. Hospitals in Michigan, Massachusetts and Maine were among the first to report receiving their first vaccines. (United Parcel Service)
Shipments of the first COVID-19 vaccine doses from Pfizer began arriving at distribution sites around the U.S., including hospitals in New York, Michigan, Massachusetts and Maine on Monday.
On Friday, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted emergency approval for the vaccine candidate created by Pfizer and BioNTech to be delivered in the U.S. Officials said over the weekend, the first shipments would go out starting Monday to 636 locations nationwide identified by the states and the territories. Many of those sites are health systems.
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3:00 The first doses of a life-saving coronavirus vaccine are expected to arrive in western Massachusetts on Tuesday. Baystate Health, the region’s largest hospital network, expects its first shipment of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine to arrive Tuesday and plans to begin vaccinating healthcare workers the following day. I consider it to be the beginning of the end to the pandemic, said Dr. Mark Keroack, the president and CEO of Baystate. He would not say Monday how many doses the hospital expects in the first shipment. Boston Medical Center Monday received 1,950 doses of the Pfizer vaccine – making it the first hospital in Massachusetts to receive the drug.