Pharmaceutical companies hustled to produce a vaccine. Pfizer’s vaccine, which the FDA authorized Friday for emergency use, is already being distributed.
College students and faculty won’t generally be among the first to get it, however. Each state has developed a plan for distributing the vaccine, including who receives it first. An advisory panel for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended healthcare workers and nursing home residents be the first inoculated against the virus, which has killed nearly 300,000 people in the U.S. as of Monday.
