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                                                                                    CVS  Health  Corp.  and  Walgreens
                                                                                  Boots Alliance Inc. are set to start vac-
                                                                                  cinating residents of nursing homes and   WALKER FURNITURE        Page
                                                                                  assisted-living facilities on Dec. 21, us-  “HOME FOR THE

                                                                                  ing the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine. They          HOLIDAYS”            12
                                                                                  are partnering with the federal govern-
                                                                                  ment in the effort.

                                                                                    The  CDC  plans  to  document  receipt
           he first COVID-19 shots were ad-    The  government  plans  to  distribute  and integrity of the vaccines as they are

           ministered by U.S. hospitals Mon-  2.9  million  doses  to  U.S.  states  during  delivered,  according  to  Kristen  Nord-
      Tday,  the  initial  step  in  a  historic  the  week  ahead,  with  the  Centers  for  lund, a spokeswoman for the agency. “In
      drive  to  immunize  millions  of  people  Disease Control and Prevention recom-  addition,”  she  added,  “these  visits  will
      this  week  as  the  Pfizer  Inc.  vaccine  is  mended that the fi rst shots go to health-  allow the government to gather impor-

      distributed nationwide.               care workers and those in long-term care  tant information on the early shipments
                                            facilities, including the nation’s hard-hit  so we can continually improve the pro-
        In  New  York,  an  early  epicenter  of  nursing homes.                  cess.”                                  Southern Nevada Health  Page
      the  U.S.  crisis,  critical-care  nurse  San-                                                                     District – Holiday Update   10

      dra  Lindsay  received  the  first  shot  in   “I believe this is the weapon that will   Operation  Warp  Speed,  the  federal
      that state at Long Island Jewish Medical  win  the  war,”  said  Cuomo,  who  con-  initiative created to develop and distrib-
      Center in Queens. Gov. Andrew Cuomo  vened  an  advisory  group  to  indepen-  ute  COVID-19  vaccines,  plans  weekly
      joined the event via video from his of-  dently review the safety of COVID-19  shipments as supplies increase. Another
      fice in Albany, thanking the nurse for her  vaccines.                        shot, from Moderna Inc., could be made

      work throughout the pandemic.                                               available as soon as the end of this week.
                                              New  York  isn’t  alone  in  celebrat-  Food and Drug Administration advisers

        The arrival of the Pfizer-BioNTech SE  ing the arrival of the vaccine. In Fargo,  are set to review the company’s applica-
      vaccine offers a glimmer of hope amid  North Dakota, the Sanford Medical Cen-  tion on Thursday.
      a pandemic that has already seen almost  ter  received  its  shipment  three  hours
      300,000 Americans die. About 200,000  earlier  than  expected  on  Monday,  said   Operation Warp  Speed  officials  have

      people are testing positive for the virus  spokeswoman Angela Dejene. The hos-  said 20 million Americans could receive


      every day in the nation’s worst surge to-  pital plans to give its first shot in the af-  the first shot of the two-course vaccines
      date.                                 ternoon.                              by the end of the year.

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