On Dec. 8, 2020, the United Kingdom became the first country in the West to begin its distribution of Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccines, beginning with a 90-year-old woman, whose injection was aired on the country’s major news stations. The first dose was given less than a week after British authorities granted an emergency-use authorization for the two-dose vaccine developed by pharmaceutical companies Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech SE. The rollout is being paid for by the state-funded National Health Service. The mass inoculation program being modeled after their annual flu-vaccination campaigns, and health authorities expect it to be a template from which the European Union and the United States can learn from…..Read More
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