Four southern governors pledged at a White House “vaccine summit” Tuesday that their states are ready to begin distributing COVID-19 vaccines as soon as the vaccines are made available.

“We’ve been in the business of doing this for a long time,” Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards said. “It’s not anything new, it’s just at a scale we don’t typically have to do it at.”

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