People over 75, front-line essential workers should get vaccine next, CDC panel says

Those groups would cover teachers and critical workers in high-risk settings.

ByMorgan Winsor, Emily Shapiro, Erin Schumaker, Ivan Pereira, Meredith Deliso, and Rosa Sanchez
Last Updated: December 21, 2020, 3:00 PM EST

A pandemic of the novel coronavirus has now infected more than 75.5 million people worldwide and killed over 1.6 million of them, according to real-time data compiled by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins University.

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Los Angeles receives its 1st batch of COVID-19 vaccine doses

A first batch of COVID-19 vaccine doses has arrived in Los Angeles.

The precious cargo touched down at Los Angeles International Airport on Sunday night.

"This is a major milestone for science, our country and our community," the airport posted on its official Twitter account, alongside photos of a FedEx Express plane. "Thank you to all those who made this delivery possible, and are part of the incredible effort to distribute vaccines around the world."

Last week, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration authorized a COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use that was developed by American pharmaceutical giant Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech. Pfizer had said it expects to have vaccine doses shipping out of its facility in Kalamazoo, Michigan, on Sunday morning.

U.S. Army Gen. Gustave Perna, the chief operating officer of Operation Warp Speed, the federal government's vaccine program, said the first shipments are expected to arrive at 145 sites across the country by Monday, 425 sites on Tuesday and another 66 sites on Wednesday.

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