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Distribution of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine to more than 600 locations in all 50 states is set to begin. Gen. Gustave Perna, chief operating officer of Operation Warp Speed, said on Saturday that vaccine doses will begin moving from Pfizer’s manufacturing facility on Sunday and arrive at 145 facilities on Monday. These locations are primarily large health-care systems able to handle the vaccines and their storage at ultracold temperatures. Nearly 500 additional facilities will receive doses on Tuesday and Wednesday.

If the Moderna vaccine is approved in December, supply to the states will increase greatly.

Operation Warp Speed, the Trump administration’s initiative to speed development of vaccines and therapeutics, has repeatedly declined to disclose the number of doses the federal government is sending to each state or jurisdiction. The Post is tracking how many doses are expected to be delivered in the first set of Pfizer’s newly authorized vaccine and by end of the year.

According to the official CDC guidance to the states, the first to receive the vaccine are health-care personnel — because of their exposure to the virus and their critical role of keeping the hospitals functioning — and residents and staff of nursing homes, as they account for nearly 40 percent of deaths from covid-19.
 


A global pandemic in a globalised world. Over one million people have died. What could we have done differently to save lives and livelihoods?

In search of collective solutions and best practice, Dr Helen Yaffe and Dr Valia Rodriguez look to Cuba for valuable lessons. By reacting decisively, mobilising their extensive public healthcare system and state-owned biotech sector, Cuba has kept contagion and fatalities down and begun over a dozen clinical trials for COVID-19 treatments and vaccines.

They have also treated Covid-19 patients and saved lives overseas. Within seven months of the pandemic, Cuba had sent nearly 4,000 medical specialists to 39 countries. This has been achieved despite the Trump administration severely tightening sanctions against Cuba, blocking revenues and generating scarcities of oil, food and medical goods.
 




Ian Smith of Mount Laurel was behind the wheel of a car crash that killed a teenager last year. Smith ran a stop sign and hit a car driven by 19 year old Kevin Ade of Galloway Township.

This morning in court, Smith tearfully apologized to the victim's family saying, "I'm sorry. I can't think of any other way to say it. I'm sorry to my family as well."

Police said that Smith had gotten drunk at a party, then got up the next morning, still intoxicated, and tried to drive.

This past April he pled guilty to vehicular homicide, driving while intoxicated and other offenses. The sentence for Smith is 5-and-a-half years.
 
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