US CDC Advisory Committee recommends vaccinating Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine

(San Francisco = Yonhap News) Correspondent Seong-ho Jeong = The Vaccination Advisory Committee (ACIP), an advisory body of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), announced on the 12th (local time) to use a new coronavirus infection (Corona 19) vaccine from pharmaceutical company Pfizer. Advised.

ACIP held a meeting and voted on that day to recommend that Americans over the age of 16 receive the COVID-19 vaccine jointly developed by Pfizer and Bioentech.

ACIP’s vaccine recommendations are a procedure that must be followed in order for the newly developed vaccine to be vaccinated in real people. If CDC Director Robert Redfield accepts and officially approves the recommendation, from then on, people can actually get a shot of the vaccine in their arms.

CNN reported that Redfield is expected to approve the ACIP’s recommendations within a few hours.

Prior to this, another government agency, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), issued an emergency use approval (EUA) for Pfizer’s Corona 19 vaccine on the 11th the previous day. The CDC may decide whether to recommend the use of the vaccine after FDA has approved it for emergency use.

If the CDC finally approves Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine during the day, vaccination is expected to begin on the 14th in the United States.

Army General Gustav Ferna, chief operating officer (COO) of the U.S. administration’s Corona 19 vaccine development program “Ultra-Rapid Operations,” announced that Pfizer’s Corona 19 vaccine will begin arriving at 145 delivery destinations across the U.S. from the morning of Monday 14th.

Accordingly, Reuters predicted that emergency vaccinations are expected to begin as early as the 14th by region.