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COVID-19 vaccines start arriving in Minnesota
The first doses of the vaccine could be administered to Minnesotans later this week.
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Dec 14, 2020
Gov. Tim Walz looks on as the first shipments of the COVID-19 vaccine arrive in Minnesota Monday morning.
Credit: Aaron Lavinsky/Star Tribune
The first shipments of the COVID-19 vaccine started arriving in Minnesota Monday morning as the largest vaccination campaign in U.S. history gets underway.
The federal Food and Drug Administration on Friday granted an emergency use authorization for the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine. Distribution of the vaccines began Sunday, with doses of the vaccine going to 636 predetermined locations across the U.S., Army Gen. Gustave F. Perna said during a news conference on Saturday.
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Trucks rolled out Sunday morning as shipping companies UPS and FedEx started to deliver Pfizer’s vaccine to nearly 150 locations, according to Army Gen. Gustave F. Perna of Operation Warp Speed. Another 450 sites are expected to receive the vaccine Tuesday and Wednesday.
“I hope at least 75 or 80% of us will accept to take this vaccine because then we will have this pandemic under control,” Slaoui told host Maria Bartiromo.
Operation Warp Speed is the Trump administration’s vaccine development program and, according to the Department of Health and Human Services, its goal “is to produce and deliver 300 million doses of safe and effective vaccines with the initial doses available by January 2021.”
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Michigan will receive about 84,000 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine in the first round. The doses are being delivered to places that are capable of storing them at extremely low temperatures 48 hospitals and 12 different health departments.
Here we have a running list of COVID-19 vaccine distribution plans from Metro Detroit health departments and hospitals follow here.
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Electoral College members will meet Monday in each state to cast their official ballots for president. All Nov. 3, 2020 General Election results in each state were certified by last week’s deadline. Each state now will hold its own meeting of electors on Monday. Most of them will be held at the state capital. Michigan’s meeting is scheduled for 2 p.m. at the state Capitol building in Lansing.
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