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Officials from the Department of Health and Human Services and the Pentagon will hold a joint briefing on Wednesday on the Trump administration’s Covid-19 vaccine program Operation Warp Speed as Americans begin to receive Pfizer’s shots.
The briefing comes a day before the FDA’s Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee votes on whether or not to recommend Moderna’s emergency vaccine. A favorable vote from the committee will likely pave the way for Moderna’s vaccine, which will be the second to be approved for use in the US after Pfizer.
US officials have said they expect to distribute about 40 million doses of vaccine by the end of this year, enough to inoculate about 20 million people, as the Moderna and Pfizer vaccines must both be injected two weeks apart.
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