Washington, Dec 6 (UNI)
US President Donald Trump has announced that Coronavirus vaccines will start becoming available in the US from next week onwards.
While addressing a rally at
Valdosta, Georgia on Saturday he claimed
"Vaccines are on their way at a level that nobody ever thought possible, it would have taken another administration five years, it took us seven months, and they’re starting next week, and we’re going to start vaccinating, and a lot of people are already vaccinated,".
Earlier this week, a US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) committee voted to administer the vaccine first and foremost to the healthcare workers and nursing home residents once the doses roll out.
CDC slides released at a live-streamed meeting this week showed the agency expected around 40 million COVID-19 vaccine doses by the end of December, with weekly shipments of 5 million to 10 million doses expected once a vaccine is authorized by regulators.
According to Moncef Slaoui, an adviser to the Trump administration’s "Operation Warp Speed" plan on the vaccines, some 60 million to 70 million doses could be available per month beginning in January, after the expected US Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) approval of the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines.
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