The United States government, with the help of UPS and FedEx, is now moving rapidly to deliver millions of doses of Pfizer s coronavirus vaccine, an accomplishment that President Donald Trump praised as a medical miracle. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is now calling for the invocation of the Defense Production Act to accelerate manufacturing of the vaccine.
It s now a race against time as thousands of people die every day, alone and separated from their families, from a virus that has devastated communities in every corner of the nation and shaken America s way of life to its core.
Though help is on the way, the situation is expected to get much worse before it gets better. At least 3,300 deaths from the virus were recorded on Friday and more than 231,000 new cases were reported, stretching the U.S. health-care system to the brink.
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I ll be first to take the vaccine in Israel, PM Netanyahu says
From CNN’s Oren Liebermann
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends the arrival of over 100,000 of doses of the Pfizer coronavirus vaccines at the Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv, Israel, on Wednesday, December 9. Abir Sultan/Pool/AP
Israel s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he would be the first person to take the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine in the country as the first shipment of doses arrived onboard a DHL flight at Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion Airport.
“I believe in this vaccine. I expect that it will receive the appropriate permits in the coming days and I want the citizens of Israel to be vaccinated,” Netanyahu said as the doses were offloaded from the cargo flight.