U.S. Department of Disease Control and Prevention Centre’s vaccine advisers voted 13-1 on Sunday to recommend that “frontline essential workers”, including older adults, 75 years of age and first responders, be in the front line to receive the Covid-19 vaccine.
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It will put people in “Phase 1B” of the nationwide vaccination campaign.
The committee’s opinion also includes giving priority to people aged 65 to 75, 16 to 64 years with high-risk medical conditions, and “other essential workers” in the “Phase 1C” of the allocation.
“They really serve to address the current shortage of vaccine supplies and to address those most at risk for the disease,” said Dr. John Kerry, chairman of the advisory committee on vaccination practices and secretary of the Arkansas Department of Health. Jose Romer said about the recommendations. .
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An advisory committee on vaccination procedures met on Sunday to discuss phases 1B and 1C of vaccine distribution.
At an earlier meeting earlier this month, the group voted on Phase 1A, advising health care workers and residents of long-term care facilities to receive the first round of vaccinations.
There are two Covid-19 vaccines – Pfizer / Bioentech and Moderna – currently authorized for emergency use in the United States.
Who is the essential worker?
The working group in the advisory committee defines the frontline essential workers as “workers who are in areas necessary for the work of society and are significantly more at risk of exposure to the coronavirus that causes covid-19.”
Among the next essential workers in the first phase B are first responders, people from the education sector, those working in the food and agriculture sector, those working in manufacturing, reform workers, U.S. These include postal workers, public transport workers, and grocery store workers.
It is estimated that there are approximately 30 million frontline essential workers in the United States.
Other essential worker categories in Phase 1C include people from the transport and logistics, food service, construction and shelter and housing, finance, IT and communications, energy sector, media, legal sector, public safety and water and wastewater industries.
There are an estimated 57 million other essential workers in the United States.
‘Strict’ vote
“This is the strongest vote for me in six and a half years,” Romero said.
“I am confident that we have reached this point after a thorough examination of the data, and what we provide – as stated earlier – the final decision will be made locally. But what we are providing to governors and health officials,” Romero said. , With a structure, which is supported by evidence.
He voted “yes” to the proposed Phase 1B and 1C recommendations.
Committee member Dr. Peter Sizzalgi, who also voted “yes”, agreed with the decision.
“I really want everyone to be vaccinated today, and I know that high-risk individuals are not included in Phase 1B,” said Czillagi, who is in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of California, Los Angeles. “But in a few months, as the vaccine supply grows, every American will have access to these safe and effective vaccines.”
A “no” vote came from Dr. Henry Bernstein, a professor of pediatrics with the Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra. Bernstein explained that he did not vote because he felt that the science of covid-19 morbidity and mortality was the same between the 65- to 74-group and the 75- and group.
“So, including a 65- to 74-year-old group in Phase 1B made more sense to me.”
Funding required
In his opinion, a majority of the committee members asked the government to provide full funding to state and local health department vaccination programs.
“The fact that the state and local health departments have not been funded for the vaccination program, especially in the context of the billions of dollars that have been funded for the highly successful program to develop vaccinations, is really surprising,” said Dr. Said Beth Bell. Yes “on proposal.
“I’m just one person, but I want to say again that I hope the government will remove this discrepancy, without which I think it is becoming very difficult for us to succeed,” Belle said. And Clinical Professor of Global Health at Washington University.
The recommendations of the Advisory Committee for Phase 1B and 1C go to the CDC for final approval.
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