(Under the Affordable Care Act, your insurance must cover the cost of a vaccine if you are in a group for which ACIP recommends that vaccine.) With COVID-19 vaccine development proceeding at a record-setting pace, ACIP has been discussing the vaccines over the past several months, aiming to be ready to make recommendations as soon as possible once a vaccine is approved or authorized. Vaccine distribution will be up to 64 jurisdictions, representing states, territories, and tribal authorities who will have some leeway in how they organize the vaccine rollout. If the Pfizer vaccine is approved in December, the company plans to ship out enough vaccine immediately to immunize three million people. Moderna’s vaccine may not be far behind, and the AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccine could be available not long after that.

Source: The Nation November 24, 2020 21:56 UTC