Who should get a coronavirus vaccine first?

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

With some coronavirus vaccine trials in their much-anticipated final stage, U.S. officials and experts are wrestling with one of the most difficult issues facing the country: Who should be first to get limited doses of a vaccine during one of the worst public health crises in a century?

Discussions have begun to identify priority groups for initial vaccination against covid-19, the disease caused by the virus. Those discussions, involving federal health officials and outside experts, are based on planning developed during the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic. Highest priority would go to health-care and essential workers and high-risk populations. This proposed group would also include older adults, residents of long-term-care facilities and people with underlying medical conditions.

A federal advisory panel that provides vaccine recommendations to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention presented an overview of the priority groups last month and is scheduled to meet again on the issue Wednesday.

As officials and experts race to stop the pandemic, they are grappling with the fraught nature of establishing vaccination priorities. Clinical trials of at least two experimental vaccines have shown encouraging results and this week moved into final-stage testing for safety and effectiveness in 30,000 participants. If a vaccine is shown to be effective, U.S. officials have said the first doses could be available by the end of the year.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/who-should-get-a-coronavirus-vaccine-first/ar-BB17kocR?li=BBnb7Kz

[uponit7771]

1. FDA.gov: "Every licensed and recommended vaccine goes through years of safety testing ..."

... the people who don't think the FDA is correct should, it wont be me.

Screw that, we can control CV19 like all the other countries who have leaders that don't brag about passing dementia test.

America ... your president brags about passing dementia tests ... that's why you're fucked k? k?

[Initech]

4. Seriously, Trump *IS* the virus.

And he's infecting his cells (the GOP) who in turn are infecting others in the GOP, who are infecting others, well, you see where I am going with this.

[LiberalArkie]

2. Donald the Trump... Keep him healthy for a life sentence at Rikers Island

[LAS14]

5. The people whose homes and work places put them at the most risk.

People in crowded neighborhoods. People with large families. Health care workers. Transportation workers. Grocery clerks. The other likely group, those with co-morbidities and those over 60, can self isolate unless they are in one of the home/work vulnerable groups.

I'm 76 and willing to continue to stay at home so people in crowded conditions can have the vaccine.

[pnwest]

6. Front line health workers first, then

everyone who lost a job, is collecting unemployment and wants to go back to work, then people who are not collecting unemployment but need to go back to work, then nursing homes, then the rest of us.

[EarthFirst]

7. The loudest proponent who is assuring the public of its safety & efficacy...

[marybourg]

8. The willing.

[Ex Lurker]

9. This. I don't think there will be a shortage

they'll be begging people to get it.

[jmowreader]

10. The entire Trump Administration

This is a new vaccine developed in haste, and could have issues. So...we pump the stuff into 100 select members of the Trump Bund. Then we wait three weeks. If it doesn’t kill them, make them grow new body parts or catch Covid-19, it’s probably safe for everyone else.