Centers for Disease Control (CDC) issued a ground breaking advisory to U.S. states on September 3, 2020, according to CNN Health. This was news for which we have been waiting for six months. CDC has instructed U.S. states to prepare for a potential vaccine for COVID-19 as soon as late October, 2020. However, we feel duty bound at UPS Battery Center to add this is only a provisional step.
Planning Scenarios as U.S. States Prepare for a Potential Vaccine
CDC has written to state and city officials suggesting how to distribute ‘two potential vaccines’ in the event ‘supplies may be constrained’. The Centers have included advice concerning who should receive the COVID-19 vaccine first. CNN Health suggests these could be healthcare professionals, essential workers, ‘national security populations’ and long-term care facility residents and staff.
But the CDC advisory advises these planning scenarios do not necessarily mean a vaccine will be available by late October 2020. It is just telling U.S. states prepare for a potential vaccine. However, it deems the advice necessary ‘to support jurisdictional, federal, and partner planning’. Planning exercises down the years for pandemics have suggested federal government prepare distribution networks, while viral scientists develop vaccines.
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Suppliers are meanwhile doing everything they can to deliver vaccine solutions as soon as they get permission ahead. CDC Director Robert Redfield told Yahoo Finance, ‘Right now I will say we’re preparing earnestly. Planning for what I anticipate will be one or more vaccines available for us in November, December. Because we have to figure out how to make sure distribution is in a fair and equitable way across the country.
‘Even if it’s very low likelihood, if everything happened to come together really beautifully. If we knew we had a vaccine that was safe and effective, we would want to be ready with the distribution. This is like the Boy Scout motto, be prepared.’ This is why we are telling U.S. states to prepare for a potential vaccine,’ Robert Redfield told a reporter.
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