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Chasing Life

Delivering the Vaccine

Chasing Life

CNN

Nutrition, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.5 • 8K Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2020

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

This week, nearly three million doses of Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine will be delivered to more than 600 vaccination sites around the country. Today, CNN Aviation Correspondent Pete Muntean takes us behind the scenes of this historic operation and tells us about the journey of a vial of vaccine from manufacture to injection.  To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

As the first planes carrying Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine took off on Sunday morning from Michigan,

0:08.2

Vicki Royce and her husband watched from behind the fence surrounding the airfield.

0:13.0

She had tears in her eyes.

0:15.3

Because this is like so exciting, this is history right here.

0:18.7

The first vaccines are going out and I'm like crying here.

0:22.1

This is a lot more than just watching some cargo on out.

0:24.8

Oh my gosh, this is like me and the moon time.

0:28.1

This is like where were you when and you were here.

0:30.8

I was here.

0:31.8

I was here.

0:33.8

There's no doubt about it.

0:35.6

It's a historic moment and for people like Vicki,

0:38.8

the vaccine finally brings some hope at the end of this difficult year.

0:44.1

The first shots of the COVID-19 vaccine were administered yesterday.

0:49.0

In New York, critical care nurse Sandra Lindsay of Northwell Health was the first in the state,

0:54.4

possible in the entire country to get the vaccine today.

0:59.6

And by tomorrow, nearly three million doses of Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine will have been

1:08.0

delivered to more than 600 vaccination sites around the country.

1:12.8

By spring, as many as a hundred million doses, it is a complicated mind-boggling logistical

1:19.2

challenge and it's also one of the most important in history.

1:23.6

So how does it all happen?

1:25.4

Well, today's CNN's aviation correspondent Pete Montine will guide us as we follow the

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