Over the weekend, vials of precious COVID-19 vaccine shipped out across the U.S., and on Monday, Americans began what's likely to be a lengthy vaccination effort.
In Boston, the first packages of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine arrived at Boston Medical Center early Monday morning, where inoculations are expected to begin Tuesday or Wednesday. Other area hospitals will likely get the vaccine early this week.
See photos of vaccination efforts here and across the country below:
Boston Medical Center pharmacy technical worker William Senior places two trays of the coronavirus vaccine into a freezer, kept at temperatures between -60 and -80 degrees Celsius, which was delivered at 5:45 a.m. Monday to the hospital. (Jesse Costa/WBUR)Sandra Lindsay, left, a nurse at Long Island Jewish Medical Center in Queens, New York, is inoculated with the COVID-19 vaccine by Dr. Michelle Chester, on Monday. The rollout of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, the first to be authorized by the Food and Drug Administration, ushers in the biggest vaccination effort in U.S. history. (Mark Lennihan/Getty Images)Ohio State employee Cory Coffey, right, administers a Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine in Columbus, Ohio. (Jay LaPrete/AP)Colleen Teevan, system pharmacy clinical manager at Hartford HealthCare, administers the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for COVID-19 to health care worker Connor Paleski outside of Hartford Hospital in Connecticut. (Jessica Hill/AP)Pharmacists wheel a box containing the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine to a freezer as it arrives at Rhode Island Hospital in Providence on Monday. (David Goldman/AP)LaShawn Scott, RN receives a COVID-19 vaccination at University of Louisville Hospital in Louisville, Kentucky. The Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine became available for specified use on Monday morning to five members of hospital staff. (Jon Cherry/Getty Images)Coronavirus Vaccine Coverage
