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E.U. Approves Pfizer Vaccine, Setting Stage for High-Stakes Rollout
In a landmark collective undertaking, the bloc is poised to start distributing shots to all 27 member nations and their 410 million citizens.
A vaccination center in Frankfurt. The operation to buy, approve and distribute coronavirus shots across the European Union has been complex and politically charged.Credit.Daniel Roland/Agence France-Presse Getty Images
Dec. 21, 2020
BRUSSELS From Stockholm to Athens and from Lisbon to Warsaw, European Union governments are gearing up to receive a coronavirus vaccine later this week, even as cases keep rising in some parts of the continent.
The bloc formally approved the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine on Monday, setting off a logistical marathon the likes of which most of the authorities in the region have not had to contend with before.
Beginning Sunday, shipments totaling 5.9 million doses of the Moderna vaccine may be sent to rural areas, smaller hospitals and local health departments. The first shots are expected to be given Monday.Credit.Andrew Kelly/Reuters
The Food and Drug Administration on Friday authorized the Covid-19 vaccine made by Moderna for emergency use, allowing the shipment of millions more doses across the nation and intensifying the debate over who will be next in line to get inoculated.
The move will make Moderna’s vaccine the second to reach the American public, after the one by Pfizer and BioNTech, which was authorized just one week ago.
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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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