Breaking Down The FDA's Role In A COVID-19 Vaccine | 1A

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA), along with the Centers for Disease Control and the National Institutes of Health, is getting a lot of attention lately.

The agency will host the first meeting of the panel that will decide which vaccines for COVID-19 will move forward and will be shelved. The online event could viewed by tens of thousands of people, which would make it the most-watched FDA livestream ever.

But there’s some confusion about which of the health-related federal government agencies is doing what. And that confusion comes at a time when the public is already very anxious for a vaccine. California already plans to independently review a vaccine approved by an FDA working under the Trump administration.