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Some states buck federal vaccine recommendations and prioritize elderly over essential workers
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Some states buck federal vaccine recommendations, prioritize elderly over essential workers
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott speaks to the local media before receiving a dose of a Pfizer-BioNtech COVID-19 vaccine at the Ascension Seton Medical Center on Tuesday, Dec. 22, 2020. (Ricardo B. Brazziell /Austin American-Statesman via AP)
Published December 30. 2020 1:16AM
Isaac Stanley-Becker, The Washington Post
Some of the most populous states are shelving federal recommendations and making coronavirus vaccines available to the elderly before providing access to grocery store employees, transit staffers and other front-line workers.
Officials are pursuing such strategies in Florida and Texas, where a combined 50 million people live. The divergence reflects differing needs in a highly diverse country where the coronavirus has killed unevenly, but it also highlights an emerging patchwork that could pose obstacles for the nationwide immunization campaign to corral the pandemic.