A board of counsels to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are required to meet Tuesday to discuss about who should first get the COVID-19 vaccine whenever it’s been approved.
The CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices needs to decide on who ought to get the first batches of the vaccine preceding the Food and Drug Administration settling on a emergency-use approval, the committee’s chair, Dr. Jose Romero told CNN.
Medical experts have recommended health workers ought to get the vaccine first, trailed by essential workers, and afterward people with high-risk medical conditions and those 65 and older.
“There won’t be adequate vaccines for everyone in the primary distribution,” Romero told CNN.
“It is important for the public to understand that we are dealing with select groups of individuals — not the general public.”
Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar has said the U.S. expects to see 40 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine available by the end of December.
Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech have applied for an emergency use authorization from the FDA, and Moderna is expected to do so soon. The FDA’s committee on vaccines is meeting on Dec. 10 to review Pfizer’s vaccine application.
