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In the United States, vaccination is speeding up.
U.S. President Joe Biden visited Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine manufacturing plant and appealed to him that the vaccine is safe and that getting the vaccine is a way to overcome the pandemic.
Correspondent Hongkyu Yeo reports from Washington.
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The applause bursts when a vaccine needle slips into the arm of 111-year-old Maria Olenbacher.
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“(Sick?) No. No. I am very happy to get the vaccine.”
To date, more than 59 million vaccinations have been made in the United States, and approximately 42 million people have received more than one vaccination.
At this pace, the Biden administration’s goal of vaccinating 100 million people within 100 days of inauguration is expected to be achieved.
But President Biden is tightening even more.
President Biden, who visited Pfizer’s vaccine manufacturing plant, said the vaccine was safe and stressed that getting the vaccine is a way to overcome the pandemic.
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“If there is only one message to tell everyone in the United States, it is that the vaccine is safe.”
When the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention analyzed those who received Pfizer and Moder or vaccines, about 7,000 people, or 0.4% of 1.6 million people, experienced side effects.
In addition, 640 people suffered serious side effects, accounting for 0.04% of the total.
Pfizer says new data is available and has been submitted to the Food and Drug Administration, FDA, stating that its vaccines do not need to be stored in cryogenic freezers and can be stored in regular freezers.
New data suggests that Pfizer vaccines can be reliably stored for 2 weeks at temperatures between -25 and 15 degrees Celsius.
The cold wave that struck across the U.S. has temporarily disrupted the vaccine supply, but vaccinations are accelerating, and the number of new corona19 patients is showing a marked decline.
President Biden said he believes it will be close to normal by the end of this year.
This is Hongkyu Yeo from MBC News in Washington.
(Video coverage: Clinical Ki (Washington) / Video editing: Kim Tae-woo)
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