The White House event took place hours after the FDA released a 53-page report that said Pfizer’s vaccine was highly effective and posed no safety risks that would prevent it from being cleared for emergency use. The Trump administration has contracts for 100 million doses of the Pfizer vaccine and another 100 million doses of a vaccine developed by Moderna that’s also awaiting emergency use authorization from the FDA, which will come possibly as early as next week.īoth vaccines are designed to be administered in two doses per person, meaning those purchases in total would cover 100 million people, about one-third of the US population of around 330 million.įDA releases detailed data on effectiveness, risks of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine In April, Trump invoked the DPA so the government could issue contracts for ventilators and N95 masks. The law, enacted in 1950, authorizes the president to force domestic industries to produce materials and goods necessary for the national defense. Trump also appeared to push back against a report Monday that said he passed on a chance over the summer to secure additional supplies of the Pfizer vaccine, saying he’d invoke the Defense Production Act if necessary.
“And I think we’ll be able to start doing that almost immediately also because we have millions of doses coming in,” he added during remarks at the Operation Warp Speed vaccine summit. Trump said his executive order would “ensure that American citizens have first priority to receive American vaccines and then we’re going to be working with other countries all over the world.” Individual states have “designated over 50,000 sites that will receive the vaccine,” which will be provided “free of cost” to Americans, he said. President Trump signed an executive order Tuesday that he said gives Americans “first priority” for US-made COVID-19 vaccines - and vowed to invoke the Defense Production Act if more were needed.ĭuring a White House event, Trump also said the Food and Drug Administration was “just days away” from approving the first vaccine, developed by Pfizer and BioNTech, after which the government would “immediately begin mass distribution.”
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