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COVID Pandemic: FDA Approves Pfizer's Coronavirus Vaccine For Emergency Use

WASHINGTON D.C. (CBS News) -- The FDA on Friday approved Pfizer's coronavirus vaccine for emergency use, kicking off a massive effort to initially deliver nearly 3 million doses of the vaccine to more than 600 sites nationwide.

The approval comes just a day after the FDA's advisory panel voted 17-4 in favor of approving the vaccine.

Frontline medical workers and residents of long-term care facilities will be the first to get the vaccine, and could receive it as early as Monday.

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