Rachel Bluth and Phil Galewitz
California Healthline
With front-line health workers and nursing home residents and staff expected to get the initial doses of COVID vaccines, the thornier question is figuring out who goes next.
The answer will likely depend on where you live.
While an influential federal advisory board is expected to make its recommendations later this month, state health departments and governors will make the call on who gets access to a limited number of vaccines this winter.
As a result, it’s been a free-for-all in recent weeks as manufacturers, grocers, bank tellers, dentists and drive-share companies all jostle to get a spot near the front of the line.
Republished with permission from Kaiser Health News.
With front-line health workers and nursing home residents and staff expected to get the initial doses of COVID vaccines, the thornier question is figuring out who goes next.
The answer will likely depend on where you live.
While an influential federal advisory board is expected to make its recommendations later this month, state health departments and governors will make the call on who gets access to a limited number of vaccines this winter.
As a result, it’s been a free-for-all in recent weeks as manufacturers, grocers, bank tellers, dentists and drive-share companies all jostle to get a spot near the front of the line.
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Newsom bans advisers from lobbying as criticism mounts of ties to interest group consultants
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Gov. Gavin Newsom introduced a lobbying ban for his paid political advisers after criticism.Rich Pedroncelli / Associated Press
SACRAMENTO Gov. Gavin Newsom introduced a lobbying ban for his paid political advisers, after weeks of criticism over his close ties to consultants who also work for corporate clients and other influential interests at the state Capitol.
In a memo shared by the governor’s office, Newsom’s chief of staff, Ann O’Leary, announced a new ethics policy Friday barring any of his paid campaign or political consultants from directly lobbying the governor, his staff or state agencies under his control. Newsom also committed to not hiring any registered lobbyists as paid consultants.
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