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The first delivery trucks rolled out of a Pfizer plant in southwest Michigan early Sunday morning. People lined the street to watch and cheer as the cavalcade of semi-trucks, led by an unmarked police SUV, slowly left the parking lot.
Roughly 3 million doses of the first COVID-19 vaccine to be approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration were in those trucks five doses to a glass vial, 195 vials to a “pizza box” tray, and five trays to an insulated, specially designed cardboard vaccine shipment box topped off with dry ice. By late Sunday evening, some of those same shipment boxes had arrived in Los Angeles via FedEx cargo plane.