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Dr. Valerie Briones-Pryor, left, receives an injection of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine from Sarah Bishop, Director of Infection Prevention at University of Louisville Hospital in Louisville, Ky., Monday, Dec. 14, 2020. (AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley)

Vaccine arrives at hospitals in eastern, western Kentucky

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Chicago’s 1st COVID-19 vaccines given at West Side hospital

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The European Medicines Agency says it has moved up its meeting to review the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine

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FILE - In this Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2020 file photo, a nurse holds a phial of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at Guy's Hospital in London. As Canadians, Britons and Americans begin getting immunized with a German-developed vaccine against the coronavirus, pressure is building on the European Medicines Agency to approve the shot made by Pfizer Inc. and German company BioNTech. Those countries all approved the COVID-19 vaccine under emergency use rules, meaning it is an unlicensed product. But the EMA approval process for coronavirus vaccines is largely similar to the standard licensing procedure that would be granted to any new vaccine, only on an accelerated schedule. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein, Pool, File)

EXPLAINER: Why is the EU taking so long to OK vaccine?

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Boxes containing the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine are prepared to be shipped at the Pfizer Global Supply Kalamazoo manufacturing plant in Portage, Mich., Sunday, Dec. 13, 2020. (AP Photo/Morry Gash, Pool)

‘Healing is coming’: US health workers start getting vaccine

By LAURAN NEERGAARD - Associated Press

FILE - In this March 12, 2020, file photo, West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice speaks during a press conference at the State Capitol in Charleston, W.Va. Justice said Monday, Nov. 30 that hospitals across West Virginia will reduce elective surgeries to ensure there is enough space to accommodate coronavirus patients as the number of cases continue to surge. (F. Brian Ferguson/Charleston Gazette-Mail via AP, File)

West Virginia governor is among 1st to get vaccine

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Illinois receives first 43K doses of COVID-19 vaccine

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Allison Wynes, a University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics (UIHC) nurse practitioner, does a Facebook live to her friends announcing she had received one of the first doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at the hospital, Monday, Dec. 14, 2020, on the 12th floor of the University of Iowa Stead Family Children's Hospital in Iowa City, Iowa. (Joseph Cress/Iowa City Press-Citizen via AP)

‘Historic moment’ as 1st Iowa health workers get vaccinated

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Vaccine arrives in SC; schools roll back in-person learning

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State health officer Dr. Thomas Dobbs explains how a person might react to a COVID-19 vaccination, right, during Gov. Tate Reeves' covid news briefing, Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2020 in Jackson, Miss. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

Health workers prioritized as vaccine arrives in Mississippi

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A health-care worker watches as the first doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine are delivered to the Maimonides CHSLD in Montreal, Canada, Monday, Dec. 14, 2020 in Montreal. The long-term care facility is slated to be one of the first in Canada to administer the vaccine. (Ryan Remiorz/The Canadian Press via AP)

Canada administers first doses of COVID-19 vaccine

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First doses of coronavirus vaccine administered in Arkansas

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Health care workers get 1st doses of coronavirus vaccine

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Wisconsin health care workers start to get COVID-19 vaccine

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Colorado Governor Jared Polis opens the state's first shipment of COVID-19 vaccine in the laboratory of the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, early Monday, Dec. 14, 2020, in east Denver. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

Respiratory therapist Colorado’s 1st to get COVID-19 vaccine

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Some health systems in Virginia get initial vaccine doses

By SARAH RANKIN - Associated Press

FILE - In this June 30, 2020, file photo, people are dwarfed against the financial skyline as they take photos of the Merlion statue along the Marina Bay area in Singapore. Singapore has approved the use of Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine and the first shipment will arrive by end of this month, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said Monday, Dec. 14, 2020. (AP Photo/Yong Teck Lim, File)

Singapore approves use of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine

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Boxes containing the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine are prepared to be shipped at the Pfizer Global Supply Kalamazoo manufacturing plant in Portage, Mich., Sunday, Dec. 13, 2020. (AP Photo/Morry Gash, Pool)

After 110K virus deaths, nursing homes face vaccine fears

By BERNARD CONDON and MATT SEDENSKY - Associated Press

A truck is shown at the Pfizer Global Supply Kalamazoo manufacturing plant in Portage, Mich., Saturday, Dec. 12, 2020. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

COVID-19 vaccine shipments begin in historic US effort

By MARTHA IRVINE and MORRY GASH - Associated Press

A model of a coronavirus is displayed next to boxes for COVID-19 vaccines at an exhibit by Chinese pharmaceutical firm Sinopharm at the China International Fair for Trade in Services (CIFTIS) in Beijing, Saturday, Sept. 5, 2020. China said Friday, Oct. 9, 2020, that it is joining the COVID-19 vaccine alliance known as COVAX. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

Bahrain approves Chinese COVID-19 vaccine for use

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