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US looks to turn tide as Pfizer's Covid-19 vaccine reaches public today

Expects to immunise 100 million people in the first three months of 2021

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United States expects to have immunised 100 million people with the coronavirus vaccine by the end of the first quarter of 2021.

Lisa Baertlein | Bloombreg
Workers at a Pfizer factory in Michigan dispatched the first shipments of its Covid-19 vaccine on Sunday. The first shots will be administered as early as Monday, an Army general organising the rollout said.
 
A network television video feed from the facility in Kalamazoo showed masked workers removing pizza-boxed sized cartons containing vaccine vials from a freezer, and placing them in large, blue coolers, before these were boxed and labeled. Workers clapped and whistled as the first boxes were moved toward waiting trucks.
 
United States expects to have immunised 100 million people with the coronavirus vaccine by the

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