Olive Branch, Miss. (AP) – On Sunday, workers in the U.S. With the launch of another authorized COVID-19 vaccine packaging shipment, much-needed momentum was gained for efforts to control the coronavirus epidemic.
Employees at a factory in the Memphis area Modernna Inc. And boxing vaccines developed by the National Institutes of Health. The much-needed shot is expected to start on Monday, just three days away After their emergency rollout was authorized by the Food and Drug Administration.
Next Sunday, an expert committee will discuss who should be in line for the initial dose of Moderna vaccine and Pfizer Inc. And similar to Germany’s Bioentech. Pfizer’s shots were sent out earlier A week ago and started using it The next day, the country’s largest vaccination drive kicked off.
Public health experts say shots – and others in the pipeline – are the only way to stop a virus that is spreading wildly. Across the country, more than 219,000 people a day test positive for the virus on average. More than 314,000 people have been killed in and around 1.7 million worldwide.
Pfizer and Moderna shots have been sent so far and the exit in the next few weeks is available to almost all health care workers and residents of long-term care homes, based on the advice of an advisory committee on the immune system.
That panel meets on Sunday To discuss who should get the dose after being given those initial shots.
There won’t be enough shots for the general population until spring, so there will be a dose ration for at least the next few months.
Panel members are leaning towards lining up the “essential workers”, as people like bus drivers, grocery store clerks and others are most likely to be infected. But other experts say medical should be with people 65 years of age or older, with people with certain medical conditions, because it is Americans who are dying at the highest rate.
The expert panel’s advice is always based on the U.S. Department of Disease Control and Prevention. Supported by the centers. No matter what the CDC says, there will be differences from state to state, as their health departments have different ideas about who should be closer to the front of the line.
Both the new mode vaccine and the Pfizer-Bioentech shot require two doses except for several weeks. The second dose should be the same as the first from the same company. Both vaccines appeared safe and strong protective in large and still incomplete studies.
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