US Covid deaths pass 300,000 as first Americans receive coronavirus vaccine
by Mark Oliver in New York and agencies from US news | The Guardian on (#5BN1B)
Grim milestone reached as US starts distributing Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine following FDA approval
More than 300,000 people have now died because of Covid-19 in the United States, with the latest milestone coming amid record daily fatalities and the national rollout of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine.
The first shot in the US mass vaccination program was given shortly after 9am ET on Monday morning at the Long Island Jewish Medical Center in Queens, New York. Intensive care nurse Sandra Lindsay became the first person not enrolled in the vaccine trials to receive it.
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