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Quarters, welcome to our viewers in the United States and canada and around the world. Im kim brunhuber. This is cnn newsroom. Millions of doses of Covid Vaccine are ready to ship across the United States at this hour pending the final okay from the head of the cdc. Its unto dr. Robert redfield to issue the official red light for the vaccine. An Advisory Panel made that recommendation earlier on saturday. Testing data show the drug achieves 95 immunity against the coronavirus after two shots, and its showing up just as the pandemic in the u. S. Is turning from bad to worse. One million americans tested positive in just the past four days bringing the total so far to a staggering 16 million infected people. It took almost 100 days to reach the first million in april. Th ....
Health Officials Say the vaccine could alter the course of the pandemic, in the u. S. , and not a moment too soon, of course. The country, now, passing 16 million cases, after adding 1 million in just four days. And hospitalizations, hitting another record, on saturday. More than 108,000 patients, around the country, in hospitals with coronavirus. Cnn chief medical correspondent, sanjay gupta, has more, now, on the vaccine, who should take it, and what the rollout will look like once the cdc director signs off on it. Well, just remarkable development, scientifically, with this vaccine. We know the vaccine is now authorized, and has now been recommended by the centers for disease control, as well. Which means, lots of moving parts are starting to unfold. We know that the shipments are scheduled to begin this weekend. Likely, going to be arriving, in many places, by monday morning. And we could see people starting to get vaccinated, ....