The U.S. government plans to begin shipping any Covid-19 vaccines within 24 hours of the shots getting a greenlight for use from regulators, federal health officials said. Shipments of the first vaccine cleared for use would start soon after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued the OK, according to plans that federal health officials released Wednesday. Vaccine makers have already begun manufacturing doses so they will be ready for shipment should the shots prove to work safely in testing and regulators authorize their use. The government also said it was putting in place a database to log who gets vaccinated, the health officials said. If protection against the coronavirus requires two shots of the vaccine, the database would help health authorities make sure a person gets their second shot, and at the right dose, even if that means in a different place than where they got the first shot, the officials said.

Source: Wall Street Journal September 16, 2020 17:06 UTC