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Ancillary supplies for administering COVID-19 vaccines are heading to more than 600 locations nationwide after the head of operations for Operation Warp Speed ordered their release Wednesday from distribution centers.

“I gave permission to already distribute syringes and needles, alcohol wipes, and diluent — which is required in support of the Pfizer vaccine,” U.S. Army Gen. Gus Perna said during a press briefing. “We’ll begin that today. Distribution will be completed by Friday.”

Health care distributor McKesson Corp. the U.S. government’s central third-party logistics provider, is building the kits, which are then shipped by UPS to marry up with vaccine shipments at destination sites identified by states. FedEx Express and UPS will both deliver the ultracold Pfizer vaccine, but UPS is in charge of delivering the auxiliary kits.

A UPS driver is being hailed a hero after saving a man trapped under a tire.

In a social media post to the Lake Area Happenings Facebook Page, Camdenton Resident James Pitts says he was attempting to start his Jeep outside a local car parts store when it happened.

Pitts says he was jumping the starter from underneath the Jeep, but was still in reverse and it ran over him.

The unidentified UPS driver apparently jumped from his truck, pushed the Jeep off of Pitts and placed it in park so that he could get out from underneath it.

United Parcel Service in Louisville has received the first shipments of kits which will help the logistics company distribute doses of the Covid-19 vaccine.

Jim Mayer, spokesperson for UPS, said the kits arrived at UPS Worldport at 911 Grade Lane last night and are out for delivery now across the country.

Doses of the vaccine will follow the kits once the Food and Drug Administration grants an emergency use authorization, Mayer said.