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The following story originally appeared on the W&M Alumni Magazine website. - Ed.
Maj. George M. “Chip” Autry V ’02 had been back home in New Jersey for just a few months after a deployment in Kuwait, but when asked to serve again, he didn’t hesitate.
An Army reserve officer, Autry had returned to his civilian job as a supply chain director with pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline (GSK). His background in military logistics and his experience with handling health care products made him an ideal candidate for the vital mission known as Operation Warp Speed: planning delivery of 300 million vaccines to protect against the pandemic that’s been raging across the nation and world this year.
Coronavirus Briefing: Vaccinations Begin in the U.S.
A moment of hope, as the country passes another tragic milestone.
Dec. 14, 2020
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America began its most ambitious vaccination campaign, administering the first doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine to health care workers.
Deaths from the coronavirus surpassed 300,000 in the United States, comparable to losing the entire population of Pittsburgh or St. Louis.
Singapore became the first country in Asia to approve Pfizer’s vaccine, and will also buy vaccines from Moderna and the Chinese firm Sinovac.
Hope in the darkest hour
Today an array of frontline health care workers received the first doses of a mass vaccination campaign that could bring an end to the coronavirus pandemic in the United States.
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Operation Warp Speed: 20 million should get first doses of COVID-19 vaccine in December, another 30 million in January
By Robert Weisman Globe Staff,Updated December 14, 2020, 2:03 p.m.
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A FedEx driver gives a thumbs up after delivering a box containing the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine to pharmacists Richard Emery, right, and Karen Nolan as it arrives at Rhode Island Hospital in Providence, R.I, Monday, Dec. 14, 2020.David Goldman/Associated Press
Ramping up national distribution of the long-awaited COVID-19 vaccine, US officials said Monday they expect 20 million Americans to be injected with the first dose by the end of December and 100 million to be fully immunized by the end of March.