LOGISTICS
A gigantic logistical operation was taking place this Sunday to distribute the first doses of the anti-Covid Pfizer / BioNTech vaccine, with a view to administering them to Americans on Monday. A ballet of trucks loaded with thousands of doses of vaccine, packaged in cartons containing up to 4,725 doses each, left the Pfizer plant in Kalamazoo, Mich., To the platforms of transport companies UPS and FedEx to applause. , responsible for distribution. Pfizer estimates that 20 planes will transport its vaccines daily, to transport them across the country, especially to the Native American Navajo tribe, which has been severely affected by the pandemic.
This impressive device reflects the sense of urgency in the world’s leading economic power, where the balance sheet should cross in the coming hours the dark threshold of 300,000 people who have already died of Covid-19, the equivalent of the population of a city like Cincinnati. .
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