An independent vaccine advisory group to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) today, in an emergency session, recommended that Americans ages 18 and older receive the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine under emergency use.The move—like its action last week for the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine—paves the way for healthcare workers to begin immunizing people.The CDC typically accepts the recommendations of its Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), and a formal announcement from the CDC will be the final step for vaccination with the second vaccine to begin.
Moderna vaccine shipments are already under way, following yesterday's emergency use authorization (EUA) announcement by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA; see related