A panel of independent experts advising the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in a public meeting on Tuesday voted that health care workers and residents of long-term care facilities will be the first to receive the long-awaited coronavirus vaccine. The vote was 13-1. The recommendations now must be approved […]
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Panel: 1st vaccines to health care workers, nursing homes
Health care workers and nursing home residents should be at the front of the line when the first coronavirus vaccine shots become available, an influential government advisory panel said Tuesday. The panel voted 13-1 to recommend those groups get priority in the first days of any coming vaccination program, when […]
CDC panel says first Covid-19 vaccine doses should go to health workers, long-term care residents
Determining priority is crucial given the limited initial supply of vaccines and the surging U.S. outbreak. So far 13.6 million people in the country have been infected and nearly 270,000 have died. Health care workers have been hit hard, with at least 243,000 infections and 858 deaths, according to CDC […]