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An 82-year-old man in the U.K. became the first recipient of AstraZeneca’s version of the COVID-19 vaccine.
82-year-old Brian Pinker receives the Oxford University/AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine from nurse Sam Foster at the Churchill Hospital in Oxford as the NHS ramps up its vaccination programme with 530,000 doses of the newly approved jab available for rollout across the UK. . pic.twitter.com/bkRrKi0QGG
— Elliot Wagland (@elliotwagland) January 4, 2021
Vaccine rollouts have received heavy scrutiny and criticism, as health care pros have struggled to communicate the logic behind who qualifies for a shot and explain reports of unused vaccines wasting away in storage facilities.
Meanwhile, cases of the COVID-19 virus continue to rise in the U.S., topping 350,000 deaths. It might be a new year, but 2021 will begin very much in the shadow of the year that has passed.
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