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Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine: What are the side effects? Who will get it first? Here's what we know


Who will get it first?
The CDC s Advisory Committee for Immunization Practices (ACIP) had previously recommended that health care workers and residents of long-term care facilities should be the first to receive a vaccine when it receives EUA. The first shipments of the vaccine will be limited, so states will have to prioritize who should receive the vaccine first.
Both groups are exceptionally high risk, according to Dr. José Romero, chair of the ACIP, which voted earlier this month to recommend those groups be included in what it called Phase 1a of its distribution plan.
Keeping doctors and nurses healthy will be important for the continuing fight against the virus, which will stretch on for months, even after a vaccine is authorized. But Romero said that first group also includes other people working in health care institutions, like those who deliver food and perform housekeeping. ....

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