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The end of the pandemic depends on truck drivers transporting COVID-19 vaccines from factories and planes to hospitals and pharmacies, but they are not prioritized to get the vaccine they are delivering.
Currently, healthcare workers and residents of long-term care facilities are up first for the vaccine. And as part of phase 1b, frontline essential workers and people over the age of 75 should get the COVID-19 vaccine next, according to the CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) vote on Sunday.
Truck drivers, who deliver everything from food to furniture to vaccines, are without a doubt “essential to the functioning of society,” which is the CDC definition of a frontline essential worker. Yet currently, truck drivers aren’t considered to be in that essential workers group.