CDC to recommend next round of COVID-19 vaccines for adults 75 and older, frontline workers
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends that adults 75 and older and those in essential roles such as first responders, teachers, farmworkers, prison guards, grocery store workers and public transit employees should be next in line for COVID-19 vaccines, according to recommendations from a CDC advisory committee and published by CDC on Tuesday.
Front-Line Workers, Elderly Next Up for Vaccines: CDC Advisers
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The elderly and front-line essential workers, including firefighters, teachers and grocery store workers, should be next in line for coronavirus vaccines, an advisory committee to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention voted on Sunday.
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The first COVID-19 vaccine was authorized for use by the FDA this month, and a second vaccine made by Moderna may be authorized as soon as Friday.
But even with these authorizations, there are lingering questions about the vaccine, such as how effective it’ll be in the real world and how long it’ll offer protection.
We talked to experts about the questions they still have about the vaccine and when we might have answers.
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CNN has the story. And itâs quite a story: âWhy vaccinate our most frail? Odd vote out shows the dilemmaâ, December 4.
âThe vote to recommend long-term care residents be among the first to receive Covid-19 vaccinations was not unanimous.â
âOut of a panel of 14 CDC vaccine advisers, a lone doctor said no.â
“âOdd woman out, I guess,â Dr. Helen âKeippâ Talbot, of Vanderbilt University, told her colleagues. âI still struggle with this. This was not an easy voteâ.”
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âTalbot was worried about whether the vaccine would even work in such frail, vulnerable patients. Even more, she worried about how it might look if the vaccine failed in that group, or how it would affect public perception if residents died soon after getting the vaccine.â