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For David A. Tanner II â22, the decision to receive the Covid-19 vaccine was âpretty straightforward.â Tanner, who works in a coronavirus testing laboratory in West Virginia, qualified to receive the Pfizer vaccine early as a frontline healthcare worker. Since the U.S. Food and Drug Administration granted emergency use authorization in December for two coronavirus vaccines â one produced jointly by Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech and one produced by Moderna Therapeutics â several million Americans have been vaccinated against Covid-19, while the rest await their turn. Though the federal government deferred to states to decide who receives the first doses of the Covid-19 vaccine, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published recommendations encouraging states to prioritize healthcare personnel and long-term care facility residents in the first phase of vaccination distribution. The CDC suggested that subsequent phases focus on frontline ....