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California working on who will be next in line for the coronavirus vaccine [Los Angeles Times] With vaccinations under way in California for frontline healthcare workers and long-term care residents, a state advisory panel is trying to determine who will be next in line when the next wave of the vaccines become available. The decision for who comes next will rely heavily on public input, California Surgeon General Dr. Nadine Burke Harris said during a meeting Wednesday of the state’s community vaccine advisory committee. The distribution plans will also depend on guidance from the Centers f...

With vaccinations under way in California for frontline healthcare workers and long-term care residents, a state advisory panel is trying to determine who will be next in line when the next wave of the vaccines become available. The decision for who comes next will rely heavily on public input, California Surgeon General Dr. Nadine Burke Harris said during a meeting Wednesday of the state’s community vaccine advisory committee. The distribution plans will also depend on guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The state expects to distribute between 2 million and 2.5 mi...

Give COVID vaccine to teachers and these other key workers next, California panel proposes Sacramento Bee 12/24/2020 Jeong Park, The Sacramento Bee Dec. 23—Essential workers at risk of exposure to the coronavirus at their job such as teachers, child care workers, grocery store clerks, farmworkers, first responders and those 75 and older should be next in line to be vaccinated, according to a proposal put forth Wednesday by a key California panel. Vaccination of those workers and seniors could start as soon as mid-to-late January, according to the proposal by a workgroup to...

California working on who will be next in line for the coronavirus vaccine Colleen Shalby © Provided by The LA Times Gov. Gavin Newsom looks on as ICU nurse Helen Cordova receives the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center. (Associated Press) With vaccinations under way in California for frontline healthcare workers and long-term care residents, a state advisory panel is trying to determine who will be next in line when the next wave of the vaccines become available. The decision for who comes next will rely heavily on public input,...

FILE – In this April 15, 2020, file photo, a farmworker, considered an essential worker, covers his face as he works at a flower farm in Santa Paula, Calif. A pair of advisory committees are making potentially life-and-death decisions starting Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2020, over who’s next in line for scarce coronavirus vaccines that aren’t expected to be universally available to California’s nearly 40 million residents until sometime deep into next year. Should teachers be among the chosen few? Farmworkers? Grocery workers? Ride-hailing drivers? Each has its constituency lobbying to be in...