U.S. Panel Recommends Giving First Covid Vaccines to Health Workers, Nursing Homes--Update
December 01 2020 - 6:14PM
Dow Jones News
By Peter Loftus and Jared Hopkins
A federal vaccine advisory panel voted Tuesday to recommend that
health-care workers and residents of long-term care facilities be
the first to receive any Covid-19 vaccine doses from the limited
supply that will be available initially.
The recommendations from the panel, which advises the Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention, apply to about 21 million
health-care workers and three million residents of long-term care
facilities.
Federal officials have said they expect there will be about 40
million doses available in December. The initial vaccines available
are given in two doses three or four weeks apart, so there may be
enough for 20 million people to be vaccinated in the early weeks.
Supplies are expected to increase during 2021.
U.S. health regulators are expected to decide in the coming
weeks whether to authorize the emergency use of two Covid-19
vaccines, one from Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech SE and another from
Moderna Inc. The companies have been manufacturing doses but it
could take several months to make enough to vaccinate the broader
population.
The CDC usually follows the recommendation of its advisory
panel, and its decision is expected by the time any shots are
authorized. States, which will ultimately decide how to allocate
Covid-19 vaccine supplies, have been waiting for the
recommendations. States have until Friday to indicate to the
federal government where they want their initial doses sent.
(END) Dow Jones Newswires
December 01, 2020 17:59 ET (22:59 GMT)
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