In this March 16, 2020, file photo, the subject is given a modalized vaccine for COVID-19 in a first-stage safety study clinical trial by Moderna, a disease caused by the new coronavirus, at the Kaiser Permanent Washington Health Research Institute in Seattle.
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On Tuesday, the National Academy of Sciences Science, Engineering and Medicine hosted the U.S. Open. If a draft proposal for coronavirus vaccine distribution has been issued And when allowed for a public use.
The vaccine will be distributed in four phases, with health-care workers and vulnerable Americans such as the elderly and those with internal health conditions receiving it first, according to the group. They drafted the proposed guidelines at the request of the National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The first phase will cover about 15% of the population, the group said.
“Front-line health care workers are especially important in controlling the epidemic and preventing death and serious illness,” the group wrote in a section of the report, “Rational.” “Since the onset of the epidemic, many frontline workers have worked in environments where they have been exposed to the virus, often without adequate PPE.”
The second phase will include essential workers, teachers and people from homeless shelters as well as people from prisons, jails and detention centers. Not all older adults are included in the first stage.
The group defines a prisoner as “any person who is deprived of personal liberty against him will be sentenced to a felony.”
The group writes that data show that individuals in state and federal prisons are 5.5 times more likely to be at risk of covid-1 than the general U.S. population.
The three phases will include young adults, children and industry workers “necessary for the functioning of society” and those at risk of exposure to the virus. According to the group, about 85% to 95% of the country will be vaccinated by the end of the third phase. Each of the four phases will include those who have not yet been vaccinated.
As drug makers rush to find a safe and effective vaccine by the end of the year, scientists and infectious disease experts are worried about who will get the first vaccine and how. U.S. Initially there will be a limited supply of vaccine doses that will not be widely available until “several months” by 2021, said the nation’s leading infectious disease specialist, Dr. According to Anthony Fauci.
Many medical experts say the vaccine should first go to at-risk groups, including health care workers and the elderly, as well as poor and minority communities that are disproportionately affected by the virus.
President Donald Trump previously told reporters at a White House press briefing that the coronavirus vaccine should probably go to the elderly or the most vulnerable, although he added that he relied on the doctor’s expertise to make that decision.
The National Academies noted in its draft that the data show that people of color have been disproportionately affected by the virus.
There is no evidence that this is “biologically mediated, but reflects the influence of systemic racism that increases the severity of Covid-19 infection and increases social-factors that increase the likelihood of infection.”
The group also said that vaccines under development have received taxpayer funding, therefore, the vaccine needs to be delivered to all individuals “regardless of their social and economic resources, employment, immigration or insurance status”.
In the U.S., as part of the Trump administration’s Operation Operation and War Speed initiative, drug companies have invested billions of dollars in six potential vaccines, including Pfizer and Moderna, which have entered phase three testing.
“People whose legal status is uncertain should be assured that they will not be deported or used against them in immigration proceedings when they come forward to receive the vaccine.”
The group also said it was concerned that late-stage testing for the vaccine excluded pregnant women, who were often at higher risk of adverse outcomes associated with Covid-19 than women who were not pregnant.
During the four-day public comment period, which begins at 12 noon ET on Tuesday and ends at 11:59 pm on Friday, people can respond to the framework.
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