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A worker holds a bottle of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, as the mass public vaccination program gets underway at Southmead Hospital in Bristol, England, on Tuesday. Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines are expected to make their way to Hawaii this month after an FDA panel recommended the vaccine for emergency use in the U.S. on Thursday. It’s expected to get approval from the FDA in the coming days. GRAEME ROBERTSON photo via AP
Maui Memorial Medical Center could receive its first shipment of COVID-19 vaccines as early as next week as Hawaii prepares to distribute more than 81,000 doses to high-risk health care workers and long-term care facilities in December.