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First doses of coronavirus vaccines land at Seattle s UW Medical Center

It arrived “unceremoniously,” this cardboard box filled with new hope. FedEx dropped off 3,900 doses of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine some of the first delivered in the state “a little earlier than anticipated” at 7:20 a.m., said Steve Fijalka, UW Medicine’s chief pharmacy officer. They’ve been preparing for this moment for months, but it didn’t feel real until the box was in his hands. “Special,” he said. “Now, comes the fun part: getting it into the arms of staff.” The vaccine delivery, among the first in Washington state, is the local launch of a historic national effort to vaccinate as many of the country’s 330 million people as are willing to bare their arms. It could represent the turning point against the virus that has killed nearly 3,000 Washingtonians, hobbled the state’s economy and disrupted nearly every aspect of society.

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