The first shipment of Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine will be made on December 15, according to the Operation Operation Speed Document obtained by CNN on Tuesday.
The document, which was provided to governors before a call with the vice president on Monday, estimates the first shipment of the modern vaccine will be delivered on December 22.
U.S. Those delivery dates are contingent upon the Food and Drug Administration’s decision to authorize each vaccine for emergency use. Pfizer submitted the application to the FDA on November 20, and Moderna submitted the application on November 30.
The FDA’s Vaccine and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee, a panel of independent experts, will meet on December 10 to review Pfizer’s data and make recommendations to the FDA on whether to authorize the vaccine.
December in the document. A four-day window between December 11 and 14 was outlined, reviewed by the FDA and the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, which makes recommendations on who should receive the vaccine first. On December 15, according to the outline, the first dose of Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine will be given.
Next, the VRBPAC is to consider the Moderna vaccine on 17 December. After a four-day review window from December 18 to December 21, the document states that the first shipment of the modern vaccine is estimated to arrive on December 22.
The document includes a forecast of vaccine production, with 22.5 million doses of the Pfizer vaccine and 18 million doses of the Moderna vaccine to be produced in December.
The list of “essential tasks” for governors to complete by December 4 included pre-order Pfizer vaccines, registration of providers in the Covid-19 vaccine program, and completion of microplanes for distribution and administration.
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