Whoâs Next in Line for the COVID-19 Vaccine?
Written by Shawn Radcliffe on December 21, 2020 â Fact checked by Dana K. Cassell
Healthcare workers and nursing home residents are already getting the COVID-19 vaccine. People ages 75 and older as well as frontline essential workers are next. Spencer Platt/Getty Images
More than 4.6 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine have been shipped, and more than 600,000 people in the United States have been inoculated.
The first group to receive the vaccine were mostly healthcare workers and residents of long-term care facilities.
The CDC has released a new priority list: People ages 75 and older and frontline essential workers are next.
KITCHENER Hospitals in Waterloo Region and across Ontario continue to deal with an increase in COVID-19 patients, and modelling shows the numbers will only get worse. The modelling released on Monday morning showed that intensive care units are already filling with patients and more long-term care homes are dealing with outbreaks. The projections said 50 people could die a day from the disease by February. Under all scenarios, ICU capacity, even under a zero-growth scenario, will be able 300 beds within 10 days, said Dr. Adalsteinn Brown, Dean of the Dalla Lana School of Public Health. Under the worst-case scenario, that could climb to 1,500 beds by mid-January, marking 75 per cent of the entire ICU system. That could mean even more cancellations of elective surgeries.
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Madhur Anand, an ecologist, right, and Chris Bauch, a mathematical biologist, focus their research on the interplay between human behavior and environment systems.Credit.Ian Willms for The New York Times
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Madhur Anand, an ecologist, and her husband, Chris Bauch, a mathematical biologist, were optimally situated during the spring lockdown, working from home in Guelph, Ontario, to watch the pandemic play out â and to discuss patterns of behavior, within their community and beyond, as we all tried to keep safe and carry on.
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Canada wasn t the only country beginning its vaccination campaign on Monday. At the Long Island Jewish Medical Center in New Hyde Park, N.Y., nurse Annabelle Jimenez, left, congratulates critical nurse Sandra Lindsay after Lindsay was the first in the U.S. to be inoculated with the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine.(Mark Lennihan/Reuters)