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Debate begins for who's first in line for COVID-19 vaccine - WUSA9.com

Debate begins for who's first in line for COVID-19 vaccine - WUSA9.com

Debate begins for who's first in line for COVID-19 vaccine - WUSA9.com
Aug 02, 2020 1 min, 15 secs

health authorities hope by late next month to have some draft guidance on how to ration initial doses, but it's a vexing decision. .

Traditionally, first in line for a scarce vaccine are health workers and the people most vulnerable to the targeted infection.

But a COVID-19 vaccine decision is so tricky that this time around, ethicists and vaccine experts from the National Academy of Medicine, chartered by Congress to advise the government, are being asked to weigh in, too. .

The CDC's opening suggestion: First vaccinate 12 million of the most critical health, national security and other essential workers.

Next would be 110 million people at high risk from the coronavirus -- those over 65 who live in long-term care facilities, or those of any age who are in poor health -- or who also are deemed essential workers.

"I wouldn't consider myself a critical health care worker," admitted Dr.

Now, health workers in COVID-19 treatment units often are the best protected; others may be more at risk, committee members noted.

Beyond the health and security fields, does "essential" mean poultry plant workers or schoolteachers.

Consider the urban poor who live in crowded conditions, have less access to health care and can't work from home like more privileged Americans, added Dr.

As soon as a vaccine is declared effective, "we want to be able the next day, frankly, to start these programs," Messonnier said

The Associated Press Health and Science Department receives support from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute's Department of Science Education

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