CDC To Vote Tuesday On COVID Vaccine Prioritization

CNN reports:

Advisers to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will vote Tuesday on the very first people to get a coronavirus vaccine once one gets emergency authorization. The CDC’s Advisory Committee for Immunization Practices has scheduled an emergency meeting for Tuesday to discuss allocation of Covid-19 vaccines.

Members of the committee will discuss who should be in the first group, and clinical considerations for the group.

Draft recommendations have suggested that health care workers should be in the 1a vaccine allocation group. Other possible members of the group: people most likely to catch, spread and develop severe disease from the virus such as nursing home residents.

This week HHS Sec. Alex Azar said that states will get the “final say” on vaccine prioritization. Don’t be surprised if this issue turns into a typically Trumpian mess.