Early, limited supplies of Covid-19 vaccines should first go to those at the front lines of treatment and high-risk groups, a special U.S. committee recommended
Certain health workers and first responders should be the first to receive a Covid-19 vaccine when one becomes available, followed by people with health conditions that put them at higher risk of severe Covid-19 disease, a special U.S. committee recommended.
As supplies of vaccines rise, the committee recommended vaccinating groups like teachers, child-care staffers and transit workers. Only later should other groups and finally remaining Americans get vaccinated, the committee said in a report released Friday by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine.
“You cannot reduce transmission when you have very few doses. That’s the time to prioritize directly the high-risk groups,” Saad Omer, a committee member and director of the Yale Institute for Global Health, said in an interview. The committee also recommended that any vaccine be provided to people without any out-of-pocket costs, and that authoritiesThere is no proven vaccine for Covid-19. Public-health officials say developing one will be critical to bringing
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