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A draft document envisions different models for sites, with the largest capable of handling 6,000 doses a day
Up to 100 sites run by the Federal Emergency Management Agency could begin offering coronavirus vaccine within the next month, part of a strategy that would dramatically expand the federal government’s role in the effort to corral the pandemic.
The plan, which was announced by President Biden on his first day in office, is already taking shape in the form of a draft “Concept of Operations,” which was obtained by The Washington Post. The document envisions FEMA, which previously had more of a piecemeal role in pandemic response, fully unleashed.
Its mission will be to “provide federal support to existing or new community vaccination centers and mobile clinics across the country.” Continue reading.