Health-care workers are getting the COVID-19 vaccine first. But that begs the question: Who is a health-care worker?
Resize icon 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. The panel offered a broad definition of health-care worker that ...
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