Coronavirus vaccine shots could go to U.S. health workers in about a month
November 18, 2020 Emma Watson
Medical staff examines a patient suffering from coronovirus on November 16, 2020 at the COVID-19 Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at United Memorial Medical Center in Houston, Texas.
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Health care workers in the United States can receive the first dose of the coronovirus vaccine in about a month.
Pfizer announced Wednesday that it planned to submit an application to the Food and Drug Administration for emergency use "within days", after a final data analysis found that its vaccine was 95% effective in preventing Kovid-19 Was and moreover, appeared to be severely defended. Disease in patients who contract the virus. The news came on Monday after Morden reported that its vaccine was 94.5% effective.
Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar told CNBC earlier this week that the FDA would go "as soon as possible" to clean up the vaccines for both Pfizer and Modern. The FDA process is expected to take a few weeks, and an advisory committee meeting to review the vaccine is tentatively scheduled in early December.
Azar told CNBC's "Squawk", "We will independently call those balls and strikes based on data and evidence, but we are going to do that as soon as possible to ensure the support of science, evidence and law . " Box "on Monday.
It is a record-breaking timeframe for a procedure that typically takes about a decade for an effective and safe vaccine. The fastest developing vaccine development, Kanthamala, was licensed for more than four years and in 1967. Coronovirus was discovered more than a year ago and has already infected more than 55.6 million people worldwide.
The country's leading infectious disease specialist, Dr. Anthony Fauci said earlier this week that vaccination to stop Kovid-19 could begin soon. In an interview with NPR aired on Tuesday, Fauci said that there will be some people in the US who will be vaccinated with the Kovid-19 vaccine in late December.
The director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases said, "This December. Literally, next month." "We hope to get people vaccinated. Who will be finalized by the CDC – there is a possibility that there will be health care workers, as well as people who are at high risk for critical illness."
Public health officials previously said that the vaccine would be released in phases. In September, the National Academy of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine issued a proposal to distribute the vaccine in the US to see if and when one would be approved for public use. He formulated the proposed guidelines at the request of the National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The vaccine will be delivered in four stages, with health care workers and vulnerable Americans, such as the elderly and those with underlying health conditions, receiving it first, according to the group. Children and young adults will be on the list of essential staff, teachers and people in homeless shelters, as well as those in prisons.
Fauci has said that he hopes every American can get the vaccine by April or July, at least five to six months from now.
The US government plans to deliver a vaccine to distribution sites across the US within 24 hours after the FDA provides an emergency authorization or approval. Distribution of vaccines will be a complex endeavor. Private companies, the federal government and the states will need to work together to obtain the necessary supplies and distribute the vaccine.
Pfizer and Moderna vaccines, by themselves, present a new logistic challenge as they have to be stored at ultra-cold temperatures. Modern 4K vaccines can be stored at negative 4 degrees F for up to six months. A Pfizer vaccine requires a storage temperature of minus 94 degrees Fahrenheit.
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