Who will get the vaccine first?
A CDC advisory panel has recommended that the first doses should be allocated to health-care workers, along with the staff and residents of nursing homes and long-term care facilities. Together their numbers total 24 million, meaning the initial vaccine supply will be 1.5 million people short of fully inoculating the highest at-risk group.
First responders, older adults, and people with severe underlying conditions round out the first phase of inoculations, which should make up 15% of the population.
Frontline workers in schools, childcare, and food service, along with people that have moderate underlying conditions would be next in line, followed by industry workers, young adults, and children if the vaccine proves safe for them. Any Americans left out of the aforementioned categories are designated to the final phase of distribution.
