U.S. Looks to National Academies for Fair Covid Vaccine Rollout

The U.S. plan for distributing hundreds of millions of Covid-19 vaccine doses will likely rely on an outside advisory committee to figure out how to do it fairly.

National Institutes of Health Director Francis S. Collins told a Senate spending panel Thursday his agency and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are in preliminary talks with the National Academy of Medicine to form a committee by Labor Day to lay out guidelines for ethical vaccine distribution.

The committee would be tasked with determining how to make sure a vaccine successfully reaches people who have experienced higher death rates and ...