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Living in a Pandemic: A Collection of Stories on Coping, Resilience & Hope
into Wuhan when very few supplies were being moved into that area. From that initial outbreak, the world saw a cascade of stay-at-home orders and business shutdowns around the globe, and significant outbreaks of COVID-19 in every region of the United States. The ongoing crisis spawned the realization within FedEx that its nearly 50-year history of building a global transportation network uniquely qualified it to respond to the pandemic. That realization was summed up in a new corporate motto of determination and commitment - this is who we are, and what we do.
Time-definite express transportation of critical shipments is exactly what our FedEx Express network was built to do when it launched in 1973. Almost five decades later, we are proving true to our founding mission by delivering critical COVID-19 vaccines.
Richard Smith, Regional President of the Americas and Executive Vice President of Global Support, FedEx Express.
Planning for the eventual vaccine distribution began soon after the pandemic hit the U.S. As part of the transportation network for the federal government’s Operation
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