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A 94-year-old World War II veteran and prisoner of war rolled up his sleeves on Tuesday and became the first person in Birmingham, Ala., to receive the COVID-19 vaccine.

Despite a fast-approaching nor'easter across the Northeast, Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar said FedEx and UPS are prepared and federal officials are keeping a close watch on shipments of doses.

California has sent orders for 5,000 additional body bags, with 60 refrigerated storage units on standby as the state battles historic highs in daily cases and positivity rates.

A variant of coronavirus that has been reported in the United Kingdom is not expected to impact the efficacy of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar told "The Story" Tuesday.

With Americans, Britons and Canadians rolling up their sleeves to receive coronavirus vaccines, the route out of the pandemic now seems clear to many in the West, even if the rollout will take many months. But for poorer countries, the road will be far longer and rougher.

As Canadians, Britons and Americans begin getting immunized with a German-developed vaccine against coronavirus, pressure is building on the European Medicines Agency to approve the shot made by Pfizer Inc. and the German company BioNTech. German officials have been especially vocal that they want it approved before Christmas.

With household transmission of the novel coronavirus being a common occurrence, a federal health agency said last month, a new meta-analysis found that there is one household member, in particular, who is most likely to give you COVID-19: Your spouse. 

Prue Leith, of "The Great British Bake Off" was among the first celebrities to get the COVID vaccine in the U.K.

Elderly people and front-line workers were among the first to receive shots.

With the first coronavirus vaccine recently approved for emergency use and in the process of being rolled out to the country’s medical workers, Dr. Moncef Slaoui said the jabs may offer protection against COVID-19 disease for up to three years.

More than 70% of Americans who took part in a recent survey said they plan to receive the long-awaited COVID-19 vaccine. 

New York critical care nurse Sandra Lindsay, the first person in the U.S. to receive the coronavirus vaccine, told "America's Newsroom" the nation needs to "band together to put an end to this pandemic once and for all."

While the nation’s health care workers who have been manning the front lines for the last 10 months line up for coronavirus vaccinations, the Centers for Disease Control and Protection (CDC) released updated guidance to manage possible side effects.

The FDA granted emergency use authorization to the first at-home over-the-counter antigen test for COVID-19 that can be used in individuals ages 2 and up, including those not showing symptoms.

The first veteran’s affairs patient to receive the COVID-19 vaccine is a 96-year-old WWII veteran, according to the health system where she was treated. 

Additional states marked public health milestones on Tuesday after the first coronavirus vaccinations were administered to front-line health care workers.

Hours after the first health care workers rolled up their sleeves to receive the first dose of Pfizer and BioNTech's two-jab coronavirus vaccine, the nation surpassed 300,000 deaths from the virus, tainting what many in the medical community were heralding as the "beginning of the end" to the pandemic. 

An FDA committee review of Moderna’s coronavirus vaccine emergency use authorization application found “no specific safety concerns” in subgroup analyses by age, race, ethnicity, medical comorbidities or prior SARS-CoV-2 infection, potentially paving the way for a second COVID-19 jab to enter the scene.

While British authorities look into the new mutated coronavirus strain, many unanswered questions remain, according to the World Health Organization.

A New York City doctor who became one of the first people in the U.S. to receive the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine Monday told Fox News it "felt fantastic."