How Companies Are Lining Up Shots for Workers

Prognosis: Misconception

Bloomberg

Health & Fitness, Science

4.1 • 838 Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2020

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

U.S. companies are taking some of the first concrete steps to prepare for the unprecedented and complex task of distributing hundreds of millions of doses to the American workforce. That means, for some: procuring deep-freezers to store vaccines or setting up health clinics at their facilities. Others are weighing whether to require vaccination for employees returning to in-person work. And, as Ryan Beene reports, several industries are lobbying to get their workers near the front of the line after the first doses go to health-care workers and nursing home residents.

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0:30.9	Welcome to Prognosis. I'm Laura Carlson. It's day 279 since coronavirus was declared a global pandemic.
0:41.0	Today's main story, right now, vaccines are being administered to select people throughout
0:47.2	U.S. hospitals and health care systems. But companies are preparing for the moment the shots
0:53.8	are more widely available and getting ready for the moment the shots are more widely available
0:55.1	and getting ready for the challenge of vaccinating millions of workers.
1:02.6	But first, here's what happened in virus news today.
1:12.6	Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine is expected to gain clearance from the Food and Drug Administration as soon as today.
1:20.8	That's after a panel of outside advisors backed authorizing the drug yesterday in a 20-0 vote with one abstention.
1:30.4	FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn said that the agency will work quickly toward authorizing the vaccine.
1:37.2	The European Commission has doubled its order of Moderna shots to 160 million doses.
1:44.4	The first COVID-19 shots have already been given to more than 1.1 million people in four
1:51.6	countries, according to data collected by Bloomberg.
1:55.7	It's the start of the biggest vaccination campaign in history, and one of the largest logistical challenges
2:03.3	ever undertaken. The Pfizer-Bio-N-Tech vaccine was rolled out this week, beginning with
2:10.4	health care workers, and 24 states reported the first 49,567 doses administered.
2:19.3	Those numbers are expected to surge in coming days,
2:22.9	as more states work through their early allocation of shots
2:26.0	and begin to report their numbers.
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