{"id":211462,"date":"2020-08-04T06:29:41","date_gmt":"2020-08-04T06:29:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=211462"},"modified":"2020-08-08T06:13:58","modified_gmt":"2020-08-08T06:13:58","slug":"vaccine-distribution-will-be-joint-venture-between-cdc-and-pentagon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=211462","title":{"rendered":"Vaccine distribution will be \u2018joint venture\u2019 between CDC and Pentagon"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sarah Owermohle \u2013 Politico July 31, 2020<\/strong><\/h1>\n
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Dees: Mandatory Vaccinations. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n

Nationwide distribution of any coronavirus vaccine will be a \u201cjoint venture\u201d between the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which typically oversees vaccine allocation, and the Department of Defense, a senior administration official said today.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Department of Defense \u201cis handling all the logistics of getting the vaccines to the right place, at the right time, in the right condition,\u201d the official said in a call with reporters, adding that CDC will remain in charge of tracking any side effects that emerge post-vaccination and \u201csome of the communications through the state relationships [and] the state public health organizations.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The plan breaks with the longstanding precedent that CDC distributes vaccines during major outbreaks \u2014 such as bad flu seasons \u2014 through a centralized ordering system for state and local health officials.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe believe we\u2019ve actually combined the best of both,\u201d the official said. A second senior administration official stressed the agencies would be working as \u201cone team\u201d to distribute hundreds of millions of doses if any of the vaccines in development are approved in the coming months.<\/span><\/p>\n

Private companies are also likely to join the effort. The first official said the government is bringing in people to integrate CDC IT capabilities with \u201csome new applications that we\u2019re going to need that the CDC never had.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The background: <\/strong>The Pentagon will be guiding not just distribution logistics but also manufacturing and \u201ckitting,\u201d the process of safely packaging a vaccine with its necessary equipment such as syringes and needles.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe DoD is handling all of those logistics \u2014 that is where their comparative advantage is,\u201d said the first senior official. \u201cAnd the CDC, some of their IT systems, relationships with the states following post-vaccination will belong to them.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Pentagon chief spokesperson Jonathan Hoffman told reporters earlier in the day that distribution would be \u201ca collaborative process\u201d between the private sector and the military.<\/span><\/p>\n

Operation Warp Speed, the government’s coronavirus vaccine and drug accelerator, is examining \u201chow do we take advantage of the commercial capability of the private sector to handle things like distribution, and where will either DoD step in to help manage that process, or if necessary, will DoD be required to step in and actually physically deliver items itself,\u201d Hoffman said.<\/span><\/p>\n

The debate: <\/strong>The comments come just one day after McClatchy reported that neither the White House nor Warp Speed officials had formally asked the Pentagon<\/a><\/strong><\/span> to help with vaccine distribution. While the White House said Defense is ready to assist, an HHS official told McClatchy Wednesday that their involvement would be the exception, not the norm.<\/span><\/p>\n

State and local government groups have already raised concerns<\/strong><\/span><\/a> about Pentagon involvement and using new methods in coronavirus vaccine distribution. The CDC \u201calready leads and maintains a highly effective system of vaccine ordering and distribution,\u201d groups including the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials wrote in June. \u201cWith time of the essence we strongly recommend against designing new and untested systems of vaccine distribution.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The state and local officials also questioned whether military involvement in vaccine administration would undermine already shaky public confidence in vaccines.<\/span><\/p>\n

What\u2019s next: <\/strong>Senior health officials told reporters that they are in constant discussion about first-priority populations for receiving possible coronavirus vaccines, including the elderly and medically vulnerable, but that those plans will depend on which candidates are ready first.<\/span><\/p>\n

Two vaccines entered the final stage of human trials this month and several more are readying for the sweeping phase three stage. Results are expected later this year or early 2021. In the meantime, an expert committee has been convened by the National Academies of Science to discuss a distribution framework.<\/span><\/p>\n

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While the CDC will monitor any side effects from the vaccine, the U.S. military will be on hand to look after the distribution and logistics involved in mass vaccinations <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coronavirus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=211462"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":211488,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211462\/revisions\/211488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=211462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=211462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=211462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}