CDC asks states to prepare for vaccine distribution before Election Day

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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is pressing governors to ready coronavirus vaccine distribution sites before Election Day.

“CDC urgently requests your assistance in expediting applications for these distribution facilities … and, if necessary, asks that you consider waiving requirements that would prevent these facilities from becoming fully operational by November 1, 2020,” CDC Director Robert Redfield wrote in a letter to governors.

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