Nursing home residents will start getting vaccinations this week and Dr Fauci predicts healthy Americans with no underlying conditions could get shots as early as March
In a briefing on Monday, General Gustave Perna said nursing home residents will begin being vaccinated in some states this week
He said it is up to individual states to decide when to inoculate elderly Americans and that more than 1,100 facilities will start on December 21
It comes as Dr Anthony Fauci said healthy U.S. adults will likely receive vaccines as early as March or April 2021
Fauci added that, if enough people are immunized by late, summer, the U.S. could achieve the umbrella of herd immunity