recommend the pfizer or moderna covid-19 vaccines for kids between 6 months and 5 years old. a decision expected in just about an hour. if approved, the white house says vaccinations could begin for young children as early as next week. and many states are already preordering doses. cnn miguel marquez is following the developments so miguel, what is happening right now? well, they are meeting. they re about half way through today s presentation. they ve been going through trying to figure out and discussing how this would actually happen, what providers would be putting these shots into arms, how they deal with the ten-dose vile and how they ll actually roll out these vaccinations also going through all the data with the two vaccines in question here. this is a population of about 20 million americans, the youngest most vulnerable americans, the latest and biggest last traunch o trunch of americans to be eligible. two vaccines looking at moderna and pfizer, slightly diffe
eligible. two vaccines looking at moderna and pfizer, slightly different regimes for both. the moderna vaccine is a two-shot regimen. the pfizer vaccine is a three-shot regimen over several weeks, both of those. so all of that has to be considered in how it will actually move forward. once this advisory panel agrees to everything and they take their vote, coming up in about an hour, maybe a little over an hour from now, then that will go to the cdc director who is expected to agree with their findings and then it would be game on. you can start getting those shots into arms across the country. many of those shots are already being shipped to various places in new york city for instance. they re already preparing to put it up on their vaccine finders so parents can find it as early as tuesday and by wednesday, kids here between 6 months and 5 years old can start getting