Watch the first health workers receive Pfizer's Covid-19 vaccine in New York

The United States on Monday administered the first shots of Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine to health-care workers, marking a pivotal moment in the country’s long march to bring the virus under control.

The vaccine comes at an urgent time, with the U.S. nearing 300,000 total Covid-19 deaths and top health officials warning that daily new deaths might not slow for months, even with a vaccine.

With limited doses available, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has advised states prioritize distribution to frontline health-care workers and long-term care residents, who are among the most vulnerable to the disease.

The swift rollout of the vaccine promises to be a monumental logistical challenge. The federal government has partnered with UPS, FedEx, McKesson, CVS, Walgreens, among others, to help distribute the vaccine and actually administer it. But state officials have warned that the so-called last-mile delivery of the vaccine will be the most challenging, and local officials are largely responsible for that effort. State officials have repeatedly called on the federal government to provide more funding to hasten the effort.

“There is not one part of this country that’s not being touched today through Wednesday,” Gen. Gustave Perna, who’s in charge of logistics for Operation Warp Speed, said Monday at a briefing. “It is not a one-and-done delivery. It is a consistent flow of ordering, preparation and delivery.”

With distribution challenges ahead and the outbreak still raging, officials and health-care workers took time Monday to celebrate the arrival of the vaccine, and the hope it represents. Across the country, images flowed in of health-care workers receiving their first shots and the first doses arriving at more than one hundred distribution sites.

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[hootisfowl]

Who else hasn't been sick in a year?

[lukehp]

the pressure on the woman giving the vaccine is out of this world

[saidali]

I would of started to flop like a fish after receiving the vaccine then say I’m jk.

[cb]

DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER

No credible insight will come of it.

[darren]

“I’m not putting that in my body” - Mark who snorts Coke off of the nightclub toilet seat

[Peema]

watching this over and over again to get over my anxiety of needles

[peanutbutta]

They really had 2 black women " volunteer" and televised it??

[tonybrown]

The first person had to be one of us huh.

[princemichaelofisrael]

All "black" people are not the same. We are Israel. Not jew-ish...we are ISRAEL. The REAL Hebrews.

[misskeisha]

Everyone freaking out over whats IN the vaccine I’m worried about the long ass needles

[tfyouwanthuh..]

Don't trust these beings, why TF would they set up a black woman??

[mummys_boy_]

"There is absolutely no need for vaccines to extinguish the pandemic. I've never heard so much nonsense talked about vaccines.
You do not vaccinate people who are not at risk from a disease. You also don't set about planning to vaccinate millions of fit and healthy people with a vaccine that hasn't been extensively tested on human subjects."
Dr.Mike Yeadon, formerly Vice President and Chief Science Officer of Pfizer.

A good quote to share widely.

[MzClementine]

That's funny I thought the first woman actually passed out whenever she was talking after she got it and you know what that woman actually died. And y'all took that stuff right off the internet. Liar liar pants on fire.

[elaina]

I wish I could sit there like that for my vaccine, she’s so calm cool and collected meanwhile I bawled like a baby.

[literallyded]

when bill gates gets his vaccine MAYBE ill think about getting it too

[PatNeedhamUSA]

I don't understand all the commotion around the recipients being black. Look at England /UK's first vaccine recipient - some old white lady.

[tenniswerewolf]

Don’t remember “Flu” shots being televised and marketed?🤔

[BFBChiller]

HOW TF IS THERE THIS MANY BRAINDEAD INDIVIDUALS IN THE WORLD, I HAVE COMPLETELY LOST HOPE FOR ALL OF HUMANITY!

[godschild]

Don't take the mark anyone but the black lady is on there takin it cause the want the black community to take it the most

[BlueStarMusix]

They can fool some of us, but not all of us