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COVID-19 Vaccination Rollout Is Now Underway

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A new report is stating that federal officials are now getting things ready for a speedy rollout of the first coronavirus vaccine which is due to be given authorized use by the Food and Drug Administration very soon..

Folks working on President Donald Trump’s Operation Warp Speed spoke with the media on Wednesday, where they said that nearly 100 million people could receive the vaccine by the end of February. This means a large number of individuals who are the most vulnerable to complications from the virus will be protected.

via Washington Examiner:

“The investments we have made in scaling up and starting to stockpile manufacturing of the vaccines allow us to feel confident that we … will have potentially 100 million doses, which is really more or less the size of the significant at-risk population: the elderly, the healthcare workers,” Dr. Moncef Slaoui, head of Operation Warp Speed, said Thursday.

He was referring specifically to the leading vaccine candidates from Pfizer and Moderna that must be administered in two shots about three weeks apart.

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The government vaccine development initiative Operation Warp Speed plans to distribute 40 million vaccine doses, enough for 20 million people, by the end of December. Slaoui said that in January, there will be enough vaccines to immunize 30 million more people, followed by another 50 million people immunized by the end of February.

“Our goal is to distribute within 24 hours after the [emergency use authorization],” Gen. Gus Perna, chief operating officer of Operation Warp Speed, told reporters. “Then, we want to maintain a deliberate, planned, coordinated cadence of delivery of vaccine as it becomes available.”

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said that the first 170,000 doses of the Pfizer vaccine are due in his state on December 15. The first round of vaccination will be for health care workers and those who are residents living in a long-term care facility.

The second round of vaccine does, also numbered around 170,000 are due to arrive in the state 21 days later.

Folks tend to think conservatives are against the vaccine, but that’s not accurate. We’re all fine with the vaccine being produced and being made available to people who want to take it.

What we’re against, what we’re afraid of, is being forced to take it. That violates our rights in a big, big way. Some people are anti-vaccine because of moral reasons. That should be their choice.

As long as it remains voluntary, that’s fine.

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