The first US shots of fighters newly authorized Cove in 19 vaccine will be administered as early as Monday morning, with shipments scheduled to go out Sunday.

According to the U.

S General organizing the rollout.

We expect 145 sites across all the states to receive vaccine on Monday.

U.

S Army General Gustav Purna on Saturday during a press call, said that the remainder of locations to receive the first batch of doses of the vaccine from Pfizer and Partner Beyond Tech will receive them on Tuesday and Wednesday.

Within the next 24 hours, they will begin moving vaccine from the Pfizer manufacturing facility to the UPS and FedEx hubs and then it will go out to the 636 locations nationwide.

I am absolutely 100% confident that we're going to distribute safely this precious commodity this vaccine needed to defeat the enemy cove it.

The United States on Friday evening granted an emergency use authorization for the vaccine for people aged 16 and older.

US Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Stephen Hahn, at a press conference on Saturday, sought to reassure Americans that the vaccines record pace of development was warranted and regulators had not sacrificed safe.

The science and data guided the FDA is decision.

We worked quickly based on the urgency of this pandemic, not because of any other external pressure.

We actually considered the potential allergic reactions pretty carefully here.

Dr.

Peter Marks, the director of the FDA division that authorized the vaccine, said it the same press conference that most Americans with allergies should be safe to receive.

The vaccine concerns have arisen in recent days after some of the first Britain's to take the vaccine became ill.

Britain, Canada and three other countries have already authorized the vaccine.