By MIKE CONLEY
By this weekend, the much anticipated coronavirus vaccine from Pfizer should be distributed to health care workers at Mission Hospital McDowell who are at high risk at getting COVID-19. And health officials for McDowell County expect to get more shipments of the vaccine as time goes on.
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