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FDA Approves Emergency Use of Pfizer’s COVID Vaccine

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. “On behalf of the long-term [care] industry, we welcome the decision by the FDA to approve emergency use authorization to expedite the distribution of a COVID vaccine,” said Mark Parkinson, president and CEO of the American Health Care Association and National Center for Assisted Living. and Troy, Mich. —

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U.S. Rollout of Pfizer COVID Vaccine Begins

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14, 2020 (Healthday News) — The first shipments of nearly 3 million doses of the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine were on their way to hospitals in all 50 U.S. Because the vaccines can cause side effects including fevers and aches, hospitals have said they will stagger vaccinations among their workers. MONDAY, Dec.

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