US health officials have asked states to prepare for the large-scale distribution of a coronavirus vaccine by early November, before the presidential election, according to documents obtained by several US media.
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The US Centers for Disease Prevention and Control (CDC)
"urgently demand"
that states do what is necessary so that distribution centers for a future vaccine can be
"fully operational by November 1, 2020,"
a wrote their director Robert Redfield, in a letter cited by the
Wall Street Journal
and sent to the States last week.
