State continues to work on vaccine rollout plan as federal officials want to send 8 million doses next week
The plan per federal officials is to send out 8 million COVID-19 vaccine doses next week. On Friday night, the FDA cleared Moderna’s vaccine for emergency use and now millions of doses are being shipped nationwide. Pfizer is a two-dose vaccine, but by week’s end, questions surfaced about its second shipment to Florida. Everyone who got a shot in the arm this week will need that second dose 21 days later. That is a nearly a 40% reduction and prompted an apology on Saturday from Perna about how many Pfizer doses would be available to states during the initial distribution phase.
WATCH: FDA holds a press conference about allowing emergency use of the COVID-19 vaccine
MIAMI – The U.S. gave the final go-ahead Friday to the nation’s first COVID-19 vaccine, marking what could be the beginning of the end of an outbreak that has killed nearly 300,000 Americans. On Saturday, The FDA held a press conference about allowing emergency use of the vaccine. The U.S. is considering a second vaccine, made by Moderna Inc., that could roll out in another week. Globally, Sahin said production should scale up considerably in February, with the companies projecting 120 million to 130 million doses a month to reach 1.3 billion doses in 2021. In addition, the FDA insisted that large COVID-19 vaccine studies track at least half the participants for two months to look for side effects, a time period when historically any vaccine problems appear.