Hannah White, a registered nurse and the first person in Oklahoma to receive Pfizer's coronavirus vaccine, embraces acting Oklahoma State Commissioner of Health Dr. Lance Frye after receiving her injection Monday at Integris Baptist Medical Center in Oklahoma City.
Mercy Hospital South staff applaud and cheer after watching Dr. Aamina Akhtar, an infectious-disease specialist and the chief medical officer of Mercy Hospital South, receive the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine at the hospital in St. Louis County on Monday.
Nurse Helen Cordova pauses for photos with her vaccination record card after receiving the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center in Los Angeles on Monday.
A team of pharmacists arrives with the COVID-19 vaccine at NYU-Langone Hospital in New York on Monday.
Dr. Jason Smith, chief medical officer at University of Louisville Hospital, receives the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine from Sarah Bishop, director of infection prevention at the hospital in Louisville, Ky., on Monday.
Registered nurses Chelsea Buchanan, left, and Debbie Ford take a selfie holding up their ID badges where a small sticker was placed after they received the COVID-19 vaccine in New Orleans on Monday.
The temperature on a freezer reads -69 degrees Celsius as workers move boxes containing the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine to be shipped at the Pfizer Global Supply Kalamazoo manufacturing plant in Portage, Mich., on Sunday.
Bruce Smith, a FedEx package handler, works in a facility at the Gerald R. Ford International Airport in Cascade Township, Michigan, on Saturday. FedEx is one of the companies helping transport a vaccine made by Pfizer. Helping with the transport of the vaccine has special meaning to Smith, whose older sister died in Georgia after she contracted the coronavirus in May. "I think she would be ecstatic to know that something that has ravaged our family — that a family member is going to be part of such a big project," said Smith, 58, whose nephew also got sick and is still recovering.
A FedEx driver gives a thumbs up after delivering a box containing the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine to pharmacists Richard Emery, and Karen Nolan as it arrives at Rhode Island Hospital in Providence, R.I, on Monday.
Pharmacists wheel a box containing the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine to a freezer as it arrives at Rhode Island Hospital in Providence, R.I, on Monday.
System Pharmacy Clinical Manager at Hartford HealthCare Colleen Teevan prepares the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for COVID-19 to give to a front line worker outside of Hartford Hospital on Monday in Hartford, Conn.
Colorado Gov. Jared Polis, left, accepts the state's first shipment of COVID-19 vaccine with the help of Patrick Belou, logisitics specialist at the laboratory for the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, on Monday in Denver.
Dr. Michelle Chester rolls up the sleeve of Sandra Lindsay, a nurse at Long Island Jewish Medical Center, before she is inoculated with the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, on Monday at the Jewish Medical Center, in the Queens borough of New York.
Nurse Annabelle Jimenez, left, congratulates nurse Sandra Lindsay after she was inoculated with the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine on Monday at the Jewish Medical Center in the Queens borough of New York.
Ohio state employee Lauren Chisholm receives a Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccination from Robert Weber on Monday in Columbus, Ohio.
Ohio state employees Meghana Moodabagil, left, talks with Emily Vrontos about her Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine on Monday in Columbus, Ohio.
Ohio state employees Kara Scott, left, and Jennifer Rose discuss the new procedures being implemented for the distribution of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine on Monday in Columbus, Ohio.
Nurse Vanessa Arroyo rolls up her sleeve as she prepares to get a COVID-19 vaccine shot from nurse Rafael Martinez during a news conference on Monday at Tampa General Hospital in Tampa, Fla.
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