As the initial doses of Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine arrive in Kansas and Missouri, many people have questions about the new vaccine.

FOX4 talked to Dr. Andrew Schlachter, a pulmonologist and critical care physician at Saint Luke's, to get answers to local viewers' questions.

Watch the full interview below.


Dr. Schlachter answers more viewer questions about the COVID-19 vaccines.

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