The U.S. public will begin vaccinating against the Novel coronavirus on Dec. 14 because of an emergency authorization for the Pfizer /BioNTech vaccine, U.S. officials said. The number of nursing homes and medical workers vaccinated in the first round is about 3 million. But the vaccine needs to be kept at minus 70 degrees Celsius. Pfizer estimates that 20 planes a day carry the vaccine.
General Gustave Perna, who oversees the distribution, said the first 3m doses of the vaccine had been delivered to 145 locations in each state this weekend. FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn told the media that the first americans are scheduled to receive the Pfed-Biontech vaccine starting January 14. Vaccinate 100 million people next February; The entire population will be vaccinated by June of next year.
Novel Coronavirus vaccine is 95% effective and FDA considers the vaccine safe.
In the United States, the number of deaths related to novel Coronavirus reached 3,309 on 12 December alone. The data, from the Johns Hopkins Website, is the highest number of deaths in a single day anywhere in the world. Up to 1.6 million cases have been confirmed since the outbreak began; The death toll is close to 300,000.
Novel Coronavirus deaths have been increasing sharply since November in the United States.
The FOOD and Drug Administration has come under intense pressure from the Trump administration. After authorising emergency use of the Pfizer /BioNTech vaccine on Friday, the agency said the move was an “important milestone” in the global outbreak.
General Pena, who oversees the distribution, said at a press conference on Monday that the vaccine would be loaded into shipping containers and distributed “within the next 24 hours.”
“The vaccine is expected to reach 145 sites in each state on Monday; There were 425 on Tuesday, and Wednesday was the final 66.” Initial delivery of the Pfizer /BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, covering about 3 million people, will be completed next week, he added.
Pena told the reporter that he was “100% confident” that he would beat the Novel Coronavirus. But he also said that while much progress had been made in the past week, “we are not done until every American has access to a vaccine.”
Pfizer’s vaccine has received regulatory approval in Britain, Canada, Bahrain and Saudi Arabia. As in those countries, health authorities in the United States are expected to prioritize the first vaccines for health workers and nursing homes.
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