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Once the state issues its recommendations, California’s 58 counties will have some flexibility on who’s next to receive vaccinations. That discretion has sparked lobbying by unions, businesses and other interest groups trying to push their workers ahead in the line.
Californians largely agree that frontline health care workers and folks in nursing homes should be the first to get the new COVID-19 vaccines. There’s far less consensus over who should come next.
The federal Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices recently recommended the second priority group should include frontline essential workers and people over 75. In doing so, the panel tried to balance the competing interests of keeping society functioning, by protecting essential workers, and saving lives, by protecting elderly Americans who are most likely to die if infected.
Who’s Next? Counties Lobbied Over Vaccine Priority List
Registered Nurse Reanne Takara administers the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine to frontline health workers at UC Davis Medical Center on Dec. 15, 2020. Photo courtesy of UC Davis Health
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Californians largely agree that frontline health care workers and folks in nursing homes should be the first to get the new COVID-19 vaccines. There’s far less consensus over who should come next.
The federal Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices recently recommended the second priority group should include frontline essential workers and people over 75. In doing so, the panel tried to balance the competing interests of keeping society functioning, by protecting essential workers, and saving lives, by protecting elderly Americans who are most likely to die if infected.