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A critical-care nurse in New York was the first person in the U.S. to receive a COVID-19 vaccine, but the question of who else should be among the first to receive the vaccine is still being sorted out.
Earlier this month, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, a body of experts that provides guidance to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control on vaccine issues, recommended that health-care workers and residents of long-term care facilities be provided the vaccine in its initial phase of distribution.Â
The panel offered a broad definition of health-care worker that includes roughly 21 million people working in a range of settings and functions. But there are likely to be far fewer than necessary doses to vaccinate all 21 million health care workers in the initial shipments.Â
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André Le Duc doesn’t consider himself a fortune teller. As the University of Oregon’s chief of safety and risks, Le Duc prides himself on planning, often way into the future.
So when the novel coronavirus started to spread in China in early 2020, Le Duc knew it wasn’t going away anytime soon. He told his university administration to start planning immediately, and mentally preparing, for a months-long, worldwide pandemic.
In a disaster situation, Le Duc said, timing is everything: “Every minute you have, you need to be thinking two to three months out. … The question we kept asking was, ‘What’s next?’”
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