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CDC advisory group votes to prioritize essential workers next for COVID vaccine
Grocery store, meat packing plant workers and more potentially added to next phase of vaccinations
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Boxes containing the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine are prepared to be shipped at the McKesson distribution center in Olive Branch on December 20, 2020 in Olive Branch, Mississippi. (Photo by Paul Sancya - Pool/Getty Images) (2020 Getty Images)
DETROIT – Frontline essential workers and people over 75 will be next to receive COVID-19 vaccines, according to a vote from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advisory committee Sunday.
The CDC will make the final approval of the recommendation.
Food retailers see ‘eye-popping profits’ as workers reap little benefit
Profits soared an average of 39% in the first half of the year at supermarket chains and other food retailers thanks to the pandemic, although frontline workers reaped little or no benefit, a new report shows.
At Cincinnati-based The Kroger Company, profits for the first two quarters were up a staggering 90%, according to the report from the Brookings Institution, a Washington, D.C.-based think tank.
“We find that while top retail companies’ profits have soared during the pandemic, pay for their frontline workers – in most cases – has not,” the report said.
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By Tom Polansek
CHICAGO, Dec 11 (Reuters) - U.S. chicken company Perdue Farms is urging the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to coordinate states policies over who will receive COVID-19 vaccines first, warning that a patchwork of plans threatens the vaccination campaign.
The fourth-largest U.S. poultry producer, in a letter to CDC Director Robert Redfield, said many Perdue employees live in one state but work in another because its facilities are located near state borders.
State policies that prioritize different groups for vaccination may do little to stop community spread of the coronavirus if workers are frequently traveling between states, Chief Executive Randy Day said.