Dr. Amanda Cohn of the ACIP said that she expects the FDA to issue the emergency use authorization by 10 a.m. Saturday. If the FDA decision comes after that time, then the AICP meeting will probably take place Sunday. Cohn's comments come a day after a panel advising the FDA recommended the agency grant an emergency use authorization for the vaccine. Once the FDA authorizes vaccine use, Operation Warp Speed -- the federal government's initiative to develop a vaccine -- can start distributing the vaccine to states. States and communities ramp up social restrictionsWhile the country anxiously awaits the first Covid-19 vaccine authorization, local and state leaders are responding to rising case rates by ramping up or extending social restrictions.

Source: CNN December 11, 2020 06:56 UTC