How will the Covid-19 vaccines be approved, and who decides who will get them?The FDA will determine whether to authorize Covid-19 vaccines for use.
Decisions might come in December for the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines. An advisory committee to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is expected to recommend who should be first in line for the initial limited number of doses.
But governors can make the final call within their states, Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar said Tuesday.How will the vaccines be distributed?The federal government has a contract with McKesson Corp.
to be a centralized distributor of Covid-19 vaccines, with the exception of Pfizer’s. Pfizer has set up its own distribution network.