CDC asks states to be ready to distribute COVID-19 vaccines on Nov 1

Editor's Note

In an August 27 letter, Robert Redfield, MD, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), asked the nation’s governors to have COVID-19 vaccine distribution sites fully operational by November 1, the September 2 McClatchy DC reports.

Delivery firms received guidance to prepare freezer farms in the heartland and to be ready to load vaccines onto trucks no later than November 1.

Last month, Nancy Messonnier, MD, director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases at the CDC, warned that state public health departments are “running out of time” to draft plans for distribution of the vaccines, and asked states to submit proposals by October 1, the report says.