First Shipment of Pfizer-BioNTech Coronavirus Vaccine Leaves Facility
Sunday is a historic day in the nation’s fight against the coronavirus pandemic.
The first truck carrying a COVID-19 vaccine for widespread use in the United States pulled out of a Portage, Mich., manufacturing plant Sunday morning, with the shots that are critical to stopping the nation’s coronavirus outbreak destined to reach locations in all 50 states a day later.
The loading process began Sunday morning. The first wave of deliveries will see 150 locations supplied with the Pfizer-BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine, and a further 450 sites will see supplies in the second shipment.
Shipments of the Pfizer vaccine will set in motion the biggest vaccination effort in American history at a critical juncture of the pandemic that has killed 1.6 million and sickened 71 million worldwide.
