CDC Director Projects Coronavirus Vaccine to be Available in December
A coronavirus vaccine will begin to become available in the United States “probably by the end of the second week in December,” Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Robert Redfield told Fox News Tuesday.
Redfield told “The Daily Briefing” that a vaccine would initially be made available “in a hierarchical way” with priority going to “nursing home residents and then some combination of health care providers and individuals at high risk for a poor outcome.”
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has scheduled a Dec. 10 meeting of its Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee to discuss Pfizer’s request for emergency use authorization (EUA) of its vaccine candidate.
Last week, Pfizer and German partner BioNTech announced that their vaccine candidate is 95% effective against COVID-19 in a large, ongoing study. The FDA can grant an EUA before the final testing is fully complete.
