An independent panel advising the U.S. Food and Drug Administration meets Thursday to discuss the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine — and if the group recommends the vaccine for authorization, states across the country could begin receiving doses this weekend or early next week.
Hartford HealthCare officials said this week that they’re prepared to begin administering the vaccine as early as Friday.
“We’ll be prepared and ready to receive the vaccine as early as Friday,” said Hartford HealthCare’s pharmacy director Eric Arlia in an interview with the Associated Press. “We have teams ready, even if it comes over the weekend we’ll be ready to receive it.