//The US will start Covid-19 vaccinations this week, FDA says

The US will start Covid-19 vaccinations this week, FDA says

Shipments of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine are loaded into a UPS plane on December 13, in Lansing, Michigan. | Rey Del Rio/Getty Images

As vaccine distribution begins, the Covid-19 pandemic is only getting worse.

On Sunday, the first batches of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine were loaded onto trucks and cargo planes to be distributed around the United States.

Doses of the vaccine, which received an emergency use authorization (EUA) from the Food and Drug Administration on Friday, will be sent to all 50 states, and vaccinations could begin as soon as Monday, FDA commissioner Dr. Stephen Hahn said Sunday.

The FedEx plane that will transport the first shipment of the Pfizer- BioNTech vaccine in the US now has its cargo door open here at @FlyGRFord…. vaccines should be loaded on soon, then flight takes off for Memphis- from there shipments