COVID-19 vaccine distribution will be "joint venture" of the CDC and Wehrmacht—er, Pentagon
Mark Crispin Miller
Vaccine distribution will be ‘joint venture’ between CDC and Pentagon
The plan breaks with the longstanding precedent that CDC distributes vaccines during major outbreaks through a centralized ordering system.
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/30/coronavirus-vaccine-distribution-388904
The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) headquarters in Atlanta. | Jessica McGowan/Getty Images
07/30/2020 05:29 PM EDT
Nationwide distribution of any coronavirus vaccine will be a “joint venture” between the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which typically oversees vaccine allocation, and the Department of Defense, a senior administration official said today.
The Department of Defense “is handling all the logistics of getting the vaccines to the right place, at the right time, in the right condition,” the official said in a call with reporters, adding that CDC will remain in charge of tracking any side effects that emerge post-vaccination and “some of the communications through the state relationships [and] the state public health organizations.”
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