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First Shipment Of Coronavirus Vaccine Leaves Pfizer Facility In Michigan

Emily Zanotti
First Shipment Of Coronavirus Vaccine Leaves Pfizer Facility In Michigan
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The first shipment of the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine, given emergency approval in a landmark Food and Drug Administration decision late Friday, left a Michigan manufacturing plant Sunday morning — the first of many shipments in a massive, nationwide effort to vaccinate first responders and other essential workers against COVID-19.

“Freight trucks carrying about 184,275 vials of vaccine departed the plant, and the combined 189 boxes of vaccine vials are expected to arrive in all 50 states on Monday,” a local news station, near the Portage, Michigan, Pfizer plant, reported Sunday morning.

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