Later on Saturday, an independent vaccine advisory panel to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention voted to recommend Moderna’s coronavirus vaccine for use in people ages 18 and older, paving the way for inoculations to begin as shipments arrive. On Dec. 19, Gen. Gustave Perna, chief operating officer of Operation Warp Speed, apologized for a “miscommunication” on covid-19 vaccine distribution numbers. Health-care workers across the U.S. received their first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine following its Dec. 11 authorization by the FDA. “We take complete responsibility for the errors in the execution of our vaccine distribution plan,” Stanford Medicine said in a statement. Although coronavirus vaccine doses have arrived in all 50 states, only about 15 have begun releasing daily vaccination data.

Source: Washington Post December 19, 2020 21:22 UTC