December 15, 2020
Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine reaches 141 of 145 first-day locations
Editor's Note
The first batch of the Pfizer/BioNTech's newly authorized COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use reached 141 of 145 targeted locations on the first day of its national rollout, a Department of Health and Human Services spokeswoman told Reuters.
Four island territories—American Samoa, Guam, North Mariana Islands, and the US Virgin Islands—are still to receive their supplies.
The federal government plans to distribute 2.9 million vaccine doses to 636 locations by week’s end, the December 14 Reuters reports.
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