America sets the date for the Corona vaccine

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the United States has informed public health officials in all states of the need to prepare to start distributing the Corona virus vaccine in late October or early November.

The Wall Street Journal reported that, in a letter sent to state governments, Robert Redfield, director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) requested that it do "urgently" everything necessary to be the centers of distribution of the upcoming vaccine. Fully functional by November 1, 2020. "

According to US media, the vaccination campaign, in its first stage, will include health workers and other groups at risk of contracting the virus.

For its part, the "New York Times" newspaper indicated that distributing millions of vaccines would be a "huge challenge" for the administration of President Donald Trump, which has suffered from logistical problems in containing the outbreak of the pandemic, and also for the "defective and fragmented" health care system.

In the communication, the centers' administration dealt with specifications of two candidate vaccines, namely the A vaccine and the B vaccine, without mentioning their names.

But the "New York Times" suggested that one of them was a vaccine developed by the "Pfizer" company, and the second one made by "Moderna".

Anthony Fauci, chief expert in infectious diseases in the United States, and Stephen Hahn, head of the Food and Drug Administration, indicated last week that the vaccine may be available to certain groups before the completion of clinical trials on it, if its results are very positive.

Last week, US President Donald Trump said that the United States will have a vaccine against the emerging corona virus, "this year."

Many companies are racing to produce a vaccine against Covid-19, but most of these vaccines are still in the phase of clinical trials, which means that it is not yet certain that one of them will be effective and safe, but the US authorities prefer, in order to save very valuable time in the battle against the deadly virus. To be ready to start distributing the vaccine as soon as it has proven effective.

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