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COVID-19 Vaccines: ACIP’s Allocation Proposal Prioritizes Long-Term Care Residents, Essential Workers

 
• By Sue Sutter

First group to receive vaccine would comprise health care personnel and residents of long-term care facilities; next in line are non-health care essential workers, who would take priority over adults with high-risk medical conditions and those ages 65 years and older, according to the CDC advisory committee’s proposed allocation framework.

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Gating criteria are needed to guide when vaccination shifts from one phase to the next. • Source: Shutterstock

With one or more COVID-19 vaccine emergency use authorizations expected in December, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices appears to have settled on a high-level prioritization framework for allocating those early doses.

Collectively, health care personnel and residents of long-term care facilities would be first in line for the vaccines, followed by non-health care essential workers, according to a proposal generally endorsed...

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