With the federal government on the verge of authorizing the country’s first COVID-19 vaccine, Connecticut hospitals say they’re prepared to begin actually administering that vaccine to their medical workers as soon as Tuesday.
“We can go as fast as we get doses of vaccines,” said Yale New Haven Health’s chief clinical officer Dr. Tom Balcezak. “I don’t want anything in the freezer, I want it in people’s arms.”
On Thursday evening, the independent Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee endorsed the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine, for emergency use by a 17-4 vote. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration authorize was expected to authorize the vaccine as early as Thursday evening.