Covid-19 roundup: CDC ad­vi­so­ry com­mit­tee de­lays pri­or­i­ty dis­tri­b­u­tion vote; EU re­port­ed­ly in­dem­ni­fy­ing vac­cine mak­ers

A fed­er­al com­mit­tee that ad­vis­es the CDC was ex­pect­ed to hold a vote Tues­day on a plan re­gard­ing the dis­tri­b­u­tion for ini­tial dos­es of ap­proved Covid-19 vac­cines. But that vote has been scrapped.

The Ad­vi­so­ry Com­mit­tee on Im­mu­niza­tion Prac­tices, or ACIP, won’t be vot­ing un­til the com­mit­tee mem­bers learn more about which vac­cines be­come avail­able first, the Wall Street Jour­nal re­port­ed. The vote could po­ten­tial­ly wait un­til a spe­cif­ic vac­cine is au­tho­rized be­fore rec­om­mend­ing how to dole out the first dos­es.

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