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Millions of doses of the COVID-19 vaccine are arriving at distribution centers across the country. The initial batch of doses will be limited.

Within hours, U.S. states are expected have in hand their first shipments of Pfizer’s newly FDA-authorized COVID-19 vaccine. It marks a new phase in the pandemic, but what’s that mean for you?

Dr. Jeff Bahr with the Advocate Aurora Health system in Wisconsin says his hospitals are “ready to go” for vaccinations. Staff who treat COVID-19 patients will be first in line, he says.

Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine may have side effects that can sometimes knock people out of work for a day or so. Hospitals are planning vaccine campaigns for their workers to avoid staff shortages.

NPR’s Ari Shapiro talks with Dr. Jeff Bahr, who oversees medical group operations at Advocate Aurora Health Care in Wisconsin, about challenges the U.S. may face in the COVID-19 vaccine distribution.

As hospitals fill up with COVID-19 patients, some are encouraging those with less severe conditions to forgo a hospital stay and get treatment at home instead.

NPR’s Audie Cornish speaks with Lisa Cooper of the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Equity about COVID-19 treatments for those close to President Trump and disparities in America’s health care system.

Officials may be relying on everyone to doing their part to stop the spread of COVID-19 at a time when the public is simply not afraid enough anymore to keep up the recommended behaviors.

NPR’s Ailsa Chang interviews Joel Zivot, an intensive care unit doctor, about why he thinks health care workers should not receive a coronavirus vaccine before others.

In the U.S., frontline health care workers are likely first in line to get immunized with a COVID-19 vaccine, once the FDA says yes. But what about the rest of us? Here’s what we know so far.