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December 1st, 2020 
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Health-Care Workers & Nursing Home Residents First In Line For Vaccine, CDC Panel Votes
https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/health-care-workers-nursing-home-residents-first-line-vaccine-cdc-panel-votes
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By a vote of 13-1, a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) panel (The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices or the ACIP). has decided that health-care workers and long-term care facility residents will receive the first COVID-19 vaccine doses once it’s cleared for public use.
“Long term care facility residents are defined as adults who reside in facilities that provide a variety of services, including medical and personal care, to persons who are unable to live independently,” the CDC said.
“Health care personnel are defined as paid and unpaid persons serving in health care settings who have the potential for direct or indirect exposure or infectious materials.”
They also discussed “sub-prioritization” within each population. In other words, it’s not simply “all healthcare workers come first.” The healthcare workers who come into contact with infectious diseases (or suspected COVID) would come first.
The CDC will take the recommendation into account and provide guidance to the states to assist governors (who will make the ultimate choice) in their decisions about vaccine distribution priorities.
This decision, if followed by CDC means that other high priority groups will have to wait, including people with underlying medical conditions, essential workers such as cops/firefighters, and elderly people not in nursing homes.
As CNBC reports, there are roughly 21 million health-care workers and 3 million long-term care facility residents in the United States, according to a presentation during the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, an outside group of medical experts that advises the agency.
Dr. Nancy Messonnier, director of the CDC’s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, said most states and local jurisdictions expect it to take three weeks to vaccinate all of their health-care workers….
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