Operation Warp Speed: US already distributes Pfizer's vaccine against coronavirus to begin injecting it on Monday

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Almost three million Americans will begin receiving the

vaccine

in the next few days starting this Monday, after the first shipments of the serum from Pfizer and BioNTech began a highly complex logistics operation designed by the Pentagon on Sunday that it should be the beginning of the end for a pandemic that is out of control right now.

Millions of vaccines, stored at -70 ° C on dry ice, are already being shipped to every corner of the United States.

An army of

, packaged in boxes containing up to 4,725 injections each, have left the Pfizer plant in Kalamazoo, Michigan, heading to strategic centers of the UPS and parcel companies. FedEx, who will be in charge of distributing them from there.

This impressive display reflects the urgency in the world's leading economic power, where almost 300,000 people have already died from the new coronavirus, the equivalent of the population of a city like Cincinnati (Ohio, northwest).

This first day is expected to distribute 6.4 million doses, although

, while the rest will be reserved for the mandatory second inoculation.

It must be administered three weeks after the first to obtain the 95% effectiveness recorded during the tests.

The goal is to deliver the first batch of vaccines within 24 hours to all hospitals and sites that request it and to vaccinate the first Americans immediately.

I am hopeful that this takes place very quickly.

Hopefully tomorrow (Monday), "the head of the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Stephen Hahn, told CNN.

From now on, Pfizer estimates that

to populations across the country, including the Native American tribe of the Navajo, which has been hit hard by the pandemic.

The day of this Sunday marks the beginning of a historic vaccination operation that will put to the test an extremely complex medical supply network that requires road and air transport, storage in airports and hospitals, as well as medical production at maximum capacity and guarantee.

The effort to vaccinate 140 million vulnerable and priority people as quickly as possible requires the collaboration of pharmaceutical companies, logistics companies, the military, the health departments of all 50 states, and hospitals and pharmacies.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommended that

The D-day of the fight against coronavirus

Moncef Slaoui, the chief medical officer of Operation Warp Speed ​​(OWS), stated this Sunday in an interview with Fox News that his goal is for between 75 and 80% of the US population to be vaccinated to guarantee group immunity. and that this level should be reached

for which it is key to clear the doubts on the part of the population about the injection.

This week this plan will be put to the test, which has been in the works for no more than 10 months when scientists from Pfizer and BioNTech, Moderna, Astrazeneca and the University of Oxford or Johnson & Johnson began to develop a vaccine against the unknown SARS-CoV- 2.

On Saturday Army General Gus Perna, responsible for Operation Warp Speed, which has allocated more than 10 billion dollars only to the development of vaccines and which may end up being the only success of President Donald Trump in response to the pandemic, compared this time to the Allied landing in Normandy.

"It is D-Day. As in World War II, this is the beginning of the end of the pandemic,"

said the general, uniformed and with a martial tone that seemed aimed at instilling fear in the coronavirus enemy.

"We know that there is a path ahead of us that will be arduous," acknowledged the military man.

In the north of the country,

and in the coastal areas, which already suffered deaths and confinement in the spring, it seems inevitable to repeat history, after confirming that in the holiday period that began in Acción de Thanks to the end of November, the recommendations to stay at home were not followed.

The United States could begin to register more than 20,000 weekly deaths during the Christmas holidays, despite the fact that it is expected that by the end of the year 40 million vials will already be available in the vaccination centers, to which the vaccines of Moderna, who could get emergency clearance for his candidate next week.

However, in the face of this good news, the authorities fear that the Americans will lower their guard.

The country continues to record a record number of infections, which usually exceed 200,000 cases and reach

.

In absolute terms, the United States is the country most affected by the pandemic, with more than 16 million registered infections and almost 300,000 deaths from Covid-19.

Although the first vaccinations in his state are scheduled for Tuesday, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy said he expects a "hellish" pandemic situation in the coming weeks, urging residents to

during the holiday season.

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