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America’s First Coronavirus Vaccinations

North Dakota and New Orleans have been hit particularly hard by the coronavirus. On today’s episode, we speak to health care workers in both places as they become some of the first to receive and administer the vaccine, and tap into the mood of hope and excitement tempered by a bleak fact: The battle against Covid-19 is not yet over.  Guest: Jack Healy, a national correspondent for The New York Times.  For an exclusive look at how the biggest stories on our show come together, subscribe to our newsletter. You can read the latest edition here. Background reading: Monday’s vaccinations, the first in a staggeringly complicated national campaign, were a moment infused with hope and pain for hundreds of America’s health care workers.Some of the very medical centers that have endured the worst of the coronavirus found the gloom that has long filled their corridors replaced by elation. The vaccine campaign, however, began on the same day that America surpassed 300,000 deaths from Covid-19. For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily 
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26m
Broadcast on
15 Dec 2020
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North Dakota and New Orleans have been hit particularly hard by the coronavirus.

On today’s episode, we speak to health care workers in both places as they become some of the first to receive and administer the vaccine, and tap into the mood of hope and excitement tempered by a bleak fact: The battle against Covid-19 is not yet over.


Guest: Jack Healy, a national correspondent for The New York Times.


For an exclusive look at how the biggest stories on our show come together, subscribe to our newsletter. You can read the latest edition here.


Background reading:

  • Monday’s vaccinations, the first in a staggeringly complicated national campaign, were a moment infused with hope and pain for hundreds of America’s health care workers.
  • Some of the very medical centers that have endured the worst of the coronavirus found the gloom that has long filled their corridors replaced by elation. The vaccine campaign, however, began on the same day that America surpassed 300,000 deaths from Covid-19.


For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily

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(light music) Here we go. What you're seeing right now is the very first COVID-19 vaccine pulling out from the Kalamazoo Pfizer plant to those in the UTS car. I'm Mark 45 leading the lab.
- People are clapping and cheering. There goes the very first shipment. The FedEx driver is waving to the crowd. There it goes. (light music) Shipman's of the newly approved COVID-19 vaccine are on the way right now to hotspots nationwide that is-- - 920,000 doses are now being spread throughout the United States. - We're getting the first doses here into LA with that FedEx plane arriving. - You see this truck here making a very important delivery. This is in Phoenix. - The first shipment arrived in Minnesota here within the last 15-- - Vaccine is now in Ohio. - The COVID-19 vaccine is in Iowa. - So we are about to welcome the vaccines, the very first vaccines here in Colorado. Any minute now we're gonna hear a doorbell and then we're going to, of course, let the vaccine in. - Oh, there we go. - Do we have to sign for it? - I betcha. - All right. (audience laughing) - Unless you don't. - I'll sign for it. - This really is the day we've been waiting for. It starts the process of the end. We know the end is long way off, but the end now is in sight. With this shipment, we start to see victories. We start to see our ability to preserve life and protect our people. We are gonna defeat COVID and it starts right there. - From the New York Times, I'm Michael Bovaro. This is the Daily. Today, as the death toll surpasses 300,000, the first doses of a vaccine are administered in the United States. What it was like from North Dakota to New Orleans. It's Tuesday, December 15th. (somber music) - Did you know which box it was right away?

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North Dakota and New Orleans have been hit particularly hard by the coronavirus. On today’s episode, we speak to health care workers in both places as they become some of the first to receive and administer the vaccine, and tap into the mood of hope and excitement tempered by a bleak fact: The battle against Covid-19 is not yet over.  Guest: Jack Healy, a national correspondent for The New York Times.  For an exclusive look at how the biggest stories on our show come together, subscribe to our newsletter. You can read the latest edition here. Background reading: Monday’s vaccinations, the first in a staggeringly complicated national campaign, were a moment infused with hope and pain for hundreds of America’s health care workers.Some of the very medical centers that have endured the worst of the coronavirus found the gloom that has long filled their corridors replaced by elation. The vaccine campaign, however, began on the same day that America surpassed 300,000 deaths from Covid-19. For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily