Initial Batch Of COVID-19 Vaccines Will Go To States Based On Population, Not Risk
Operation Warp Speed is allocating the first batch of 6.4 million COVID vaccines to states, based on population. This circumvents a CDC advisory committee, which proposed allocation based on risk.
by Pien Huang
Nov 24, 2020
3 minutes
Top officials from Operation Warp Speed, the government's program to fast-track the development and delivery of COVID-19 vaccines, announced they've allocated 6.4 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines to states based on their total populations.
Once a COVID-19 vaccine is authorized by the allocations will be made based on the total number of adults in the state. "We wanted to keep this simple," said at a media briefing Tuesday, "We thought it would
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