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workers packed up and shipped out Madonna's Cove in 19 vaccine on Sunday, the second approved coronavirus vaccine in the United States, where cases and deaths from the disease continued to climb.
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And while the new Moderna shots promised to vastly widened the vaccine roll out, U.
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S officials were monitoring a new strain of Cove in 19 that emerged in the United Kingdom.
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That just means that we need to be that much more vigilant while we wait to get vaccinated.
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Speaking on CBS's Face the Nation Sunday, U.
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S Surgeon General Jerome Adams, who received the Pfizer vaccine publicly last week, said there was no indication that the new strain would impact the US vaccination effort.
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Viruses mutate all the time, and that does not mean that this virus is anymore dangerous.
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We don't even know if it's really more contagious yet or not, or if it just happened to be ah strain that was involved in a super spreader event.
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Right now, we have no indications that it is going to hurt our ability to continue vaccinating people or that it is any more dangerous or deadly than the strains that are currently out there and that we know about.
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Officials said it was most likely that the first modern a vaccine shot, which was approved by the FDA on Friday, would be given to people on Monday morning.
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Some states air choosing to use modern is shots for harder to reach rural areas because they could be stored for 30 days in standard temperature refrigerators.
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Pfizer's vaccine must be shipped and stored in much colder conditions and can be held for only five days.
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It's standard refrigerator temperatures, the start of delivery for the modern.
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A vaccine will significantly widen availability of Cove in 19 vaccines nationwide as the United States was reporting more than 2500 deaths daily, according to a Reuters analysis reaching a total of more than 316,000 U.
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S deaths related to the coronavirus.
