Key frontline workers and people aged 75 and over should be next in line for the COVID-19 vaccine, a group of medical experts who advised the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Sunday.
The Federal Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices voted in favor of the recommendation, which will go to the CDC director for final approval.
The next group of key workers for the vaccine includes 30 million people, including firefighters, police officers, teachers and employees in grocery stores, as well as correction officers and workers in the food and agricultural industry, the manufacturing industry, the service American postal and public transportation.
The Committee also voted that the following, behind these groups, should be: other key workers; people between the ages of 65 and 74 and those between the ages of 16 and 64 who have certain medical conditions that put them at high risk of serious illness if they are infected with the coronavirus.
About 556,000 Americans have been vaccinated since national immunization efforts began last week, the CDC said.
The images – from Pfizer / BioNTech – first went to health care workers and nursing home residents, based on the recommendations of the same advisory group. A vaccine from Moderna was approved on Friday and began shipping on Sunday.
However, despite what the CDC recommends, there will be differences in how each state administers the vaccine, as different local health departments may have different ideas about who should be in the front line.
In New York, the first wave of vaccines began addressing health care workers last week, with nursing home residents starting to receive vaccines on Monday.
The first respondents, teachers and other key frontline workers who regularly interact with the public are part of Phase 2 of New York, according to a draft vaccine management plan in the state launched in October.
They are followed by those over 65 and people at high risk of serious illness. All other key workers will be in phase 4, with all others demoted to phase 5.
The first Moderna vaccines are expected to be administered on Monday.
Nearly 8 million global doses of anti-coronavirus will be delivered on Monday, about 5.9 million from Moderna and 2 million vaccines from Pfizer, said Dr. Moncef Slaoui, chief adviser to Operation Warp Speed’s initiative. Trump administration in CNN’s “State of the Union.” . “
Both vaccines require two doses a few weeks apart. The second dose should be from the same company as the first.
With Post Wires