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“I think we know this isnt going to be perfect. We dont have vaccine for everyone right away, so we’re going to have to make difficult decisions,” said Claire Hannan, executive director of an organization that represents the managers of state vaccination programs. If essential workers are indeed next up, states already have different ideas about who among them should be closer to the front of the line. In Nevada, for example, teachers and child care staff will be ahead of public transport...

US experts debate: Who should be next in line for vaccine? By Associated Press | December 17, 2020 at 11:56 PM CST - Updated January 12 at 12:17 PM NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. COVID-19 vaccination campaign has begun, and the few available doses are mostly going into the arms of health-care workers and nursing home residents. But what about in January, February and March, when more shots are expected to become available? Who should get those doses? A federal panel of vaccination experts tak...

“I think we know this isnt going to be perfect. We dont have vaccine for everyone right away, so we’re going to have to make difficult decisions,” said Claire Hannan, executive director of an organization that represents the managers of state vaccination programs. If essential workers are indeed next up, states already have different ideas about who among them should be closer to the front of the line. In Nevada, for example, teachers and child care staff will be ahead of public transport...

“I think we know this isnt going to be perfect. We dont have vaccine for everyone right away, so we’re going to have to make difficult decisions,” said Claire Hannan, executive director of an organization that represents the managers of state vaccination programs. If essential workers are indeed next up, states already have different ideas about who among them should be closer to the front of the line. In Nevada, for example, teachers and child care staff will be ahead of public transport...

Mike Stobbe FILE - In this Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2020, file photo, a droplet falls from a syringe after a health care worker was injected with the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at a hospital in Providence, R.I. The U.S. COVID-19 vaccination campaign has begun, and the few available doses are mostly going into the arms of health care workers and nursing home residents. But what about in January, February and March, when more shots are expected to become available? Who should get those...

NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. COVID-19 vaccination campaign has begun, and the few available doses are mostly going into the arms of health-care workers and nursing home residents. But what about in January, February and March, when more shots are expected to become available? Who should get those doses? A federal panel of vaccination experts takes up that question at an emergency meeting this weekend. No matter what the committee decides, there will be differences from state to state. The panelis...

“I think we know this isnt going to be perfect. We dont have vaccine for everyone right away, so we’re going to have to make difficult decisions,” said Claire Hannan, executive director of an organization that represents the managers of state vaccination programs. If essential workers are indeed next up, states already have different ideas about who among them should be closer to the front of the line. In Nevada, for example, teachers and child care staff will be ahead of public transport...

Officials across U.S. debate who should be next in line for COVID-19 vaccinations 3 months 2 weeks 9 hours ago Friday, December 18 2020 Dec 18, 2020 December 18, 2020 9:05 AM December 18, 2020 in News Source: Associated Press Share: NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. COVID-19 vaccination campaign has begun, and the few available doses are mostly going into the arms of health-care workers and nursing home residents. But what about in January, February and March, when more shots are expected to become av...

States are debating whether prisoners should be among the first groups to receive COVID-19 vaccines. Experts say inmates can transmit the disease to prison employees as well as healthcare workers who treat them. A tracking project reports that 250,000 inmates nationwide have tested positive for COVID-19 and 1,700 have died. They add that 62,000 prison employees have tested positive and 108 have died. All data and statistics are based on publicly available data at the time of publication. Some i...