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COVID-19 Vaccine News

On Dec. 20, the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices or ACIP released their recommendations on the prioritization of vaccine distribution after long-term care patients and frontline health care workers.

Here is the breakdown of the two groups as recommended by ACIP:

Phase 1b Group (49 million people). This group includes police, firefighters, teachers and school personnel; food and agriculture workers; manufacturing workers; corrections workers; U.S. Postal Service workers; public transit and grocery store workers. This group also includes 19 million seniors 75 years old or older.

Phase 1c Group (129 million people). This group includes the remaining seniors, 65-74 (28 million people), and other “essential workers” (20 million people) in Transportation and Logistics, Food Service, Shelter & Housing (including construction), Finance, IT & Communication, Energy, Media Legal, Public Safety (Engineers), Water & Wastewater. This group also includes people between the ages of 16-64 with high-risk conditions (81 million people).

The ACIP panel recommendations are non binding. State governments have the flexibility to prioritize decisions locally — but they have so far followed the ACIP recommendations

Details: ACIP COVID-19 Vaccine Recommendations

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