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The rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine is accelerating across the country with 75.2 million doses distributed to the states and 64.1 million doses administered to patients, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Though a host of challenges remain, there’s much cause for optimism as the global fight against COVID-19 intensifies and vaccine rollout efforts accelerate in February 2021.

Increasingly, healthcare organizations are having to take cues from non-traditional care sources in order to stay one step ahead of the competition. Patient demand for greater convenience and the entry of more diverse competition catering to those needs is challenging primary care physicians to innovate and improve.

Cindy Williams, vice president and chief pharmacy officer at Riverside Health System, and Leslie Baker, chief experience officer of Adjuvant.Health powered by Allied Physicians Group, presented the webinar “The COVID-19 Vaccine Is Being Distributed: Now What?” on Jan. 27.

The situation is changing so rapidly when it comes to America’s COVID-19 vaccine distribution and prioritization strategy that if you blink, you might miss something important.

It’s been a mixed bag in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic through the holidays and into the first few weeks of 2021. Vaccines are being distributed and administered, however nowhere near the 20 million doses the U.S. government expected would be dispensed by early January.

We made it. 

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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have authorized and recommended the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines for emergency use. Both vaccines underwent rigorous FDA scientific and regulatory processes to facilitate development to ensure their safety, efficacy, and quality.

The COVID-19 vaccine now being distributed is one of our best tools yet in ending the pandemic. But as your patients endeavor to educate themselves about the COVID-19 vaccine, be cognizant of the fact that there is a lot of inaccuracies and misinformation in circulation. For example, COVID-19 vaccines will not give you COVID-19. None of the vaccines currently in development or distribution in the U.S. use the live virus that causes COVID-19.