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Britain OKs Pfizer vaccine and will begin shots within days

by Lauran NeergaardDanica Kirka
| December 3, 2020 12:03 AM

LONDON (AP) — Britain became the first country in the world to authorize a rigorously tested COVID-19 vaccine Wednesday and could be dispensing shots within days — a historic step toward eventually ending the outbreak that has killed more than 1.4 million people around the globe.

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