The United States surpassed 300,000 deaths from coronavirus this Monday, according to the count of our sister network NBC News, and
more than 16 million cases of COVID-19 have been registered in the country since the beginning of the pandemic in March.
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The first vaccines against COVID-19 are arriving this Monday at hospitals across the country in a historic mass vaccination operation.
Trucks and cargo planes from UPS and FedEx carry the first doses to about 150 hospitals across the country.
Medical staff members Gabriel Cervera Rodríguez, left, and Elizabeth Gamboa, middle, perform a procedure to insert a tube into a patient's chest to extract body fluid in the COVID-19 intensive care unit (ICU) at United Memorial Medical Center on December 10, 2020 in Houston, Texas.Go Nakamura / Getty Images
The Pfizer and BioNTech vaccine will first be distributed to healthcare workers and residents of nursing homes, who have priority, before it begins to be given to others (other groups are expected to take priority).
The death toll so far,
300,026
, exceeds the number of soldiers killed during World War II, 291,557 in combat, according to the federal government.
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