Covid-19 Vaccine Distribution Plans

Posted on August 17, 2020 by F. Robert Jacobs
Distribution strategies for possible Covid-19 vaccines in the U.S. are starting to take shape. Government officials say they will tap McKesson Corp. as the main distributor of vaccines nationwide should the shots prove to work safely, the WSJ’s Jared S. Hopkins reports, as they try to take advantage of the existing infrastructure of one of the world’s largest drug wholesalers and the biggest vaccine middleman in the U.S. The federal government has struck deals with vaccine makers to secure hundreds of millions of doses, in addition to taking steps to guarantee supplies of vials and syringes. The collaboration with McKesson is the first major step toward determining how the shots would be distributed from manufacturing plants and where Americans will need to go to receive them. Officials clearly aren’t anxious to build an entirely new supply chain: McKesson already distributes up to 150 million doses of all vaccines annually.
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