Prep for Covid-19 vaccine distribution as soon as late October: US CDC

Trump administration asks governors to speed distribution centres by Nov 1, just before Election Day

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has asked state public health officials to prepare to distribute a potential coronavirus vaccine to high-risk groups by November 1, documents published by the agency showed on Wednesday. 

The timing of a vaccine has taken on political importance as US President Donald Trump seeks re-election in November, after committing billions of federal dollars to develop a vaccine to prevent Covid-19, which has killed more than 180,000 Americans. In a letter to governors dated August 27, Robert Redfield, director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said states “in the