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Coronavirus deaths in the U.S. have surpassed 300,000, estimates show.

The first person in one state to receive the long-waited COVID-19 vaccine called the jab a “moment of hope” in the fight against the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. 

The United States surpassed 300,000 coronavirus deaths on Monday, the same day that saw the first doses of Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine distributed to select health care workers in several states. 

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Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar and U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams joined faculty and administrators of George Washington University Hospital on Monday as the first doses of the facility’s initial coronavirus vaccine doses were administered.

Amid mass deliveries of the first wave of Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccines, Gen. Gustave Perna, Operation Warp Speed chief operating officer, said 55 of the 145 initial distribution sites received shipments by around noon on Monday.

The first shots of Pfizer and BioNTech’s coronavirus vaccine were administered on Monday, with the initial jabs of the country’s nearly 3 million doses going to health care workers in several states.

Here's a look at what the states have planned for coronavirus vaccine distribution, according to each state’s COVID-19 vaccination plan submitted to the CDC. 

Florida gave the first dose of its limited coronavirus vaccine supply to a nurse at Tampa General Hospital.

Following mass deliveries of the first coronavirus vaccine doses, U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Jerome Adams told "FOX & Friends" that Monday marked "the beginning of the end" to the pandemic. 

The first dose of New York’s coronavirus vaccine supply went to a health care worker who spent the last 10 months working the front lines as the illness ripped through the state.

The U.S. will administer its first doses of Pfizer’s recently approved coronavirus vaccine on Monday, Dec. 14, as part of a historic mass vaccination effort, while related deaths tick toward the 300,000 mark.

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“Hopefully we can roll out the vaccine very fast,” the vaccine's creator told Fox News.

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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Friday formally granted emergency approval for Pfizer and BioNTech’s coronavirus vaccine candidate, officially paving the way for widespread distribution of the long-awaited vaccine.

After the first round of COVID-19 vaccines is administered to those at the top of the priority list, it will likely be possible for people to jump the line under an honor system, according to a report.

Health officials in St. Louis City and county, Mo., nestled in the crux of hard-hit Midwest states with surging coronavirus cases, have rejected the new shorter quarantine periods suggested by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). 

In research published this month in the journal Pathogens, authors offer further evidence for the theory that Bartonella bacteria, which can be spread by insect bites and animal scratches — most famously, those of cats — is linked with psychiatric symptoms.