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CDC Issues New Guidelines for COVID-19 Vaccinations

Associated Press

   With inoculations of a second COVID-19 vaccine set to begin Monday
   across the United States, federal health regulators have issued new
   guidelines of who should be prioritized in the next round of
   inoculations.

   An advisory panel of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and
   Prevention voted 13-1 Sunday to make Americans 75 and older, along with
   so-called "frontline essential workers," the first in line to receive
   coronavirus vaccines. The essential workers include first responders
   such as police and firefighters, teachers, employees of the U.S. Postal
   Service, public transportation employees, and workers in food and
   agriculture, manufacturing and grocery stores.

   The panel's vote came as hundreds of delivery trucks began fanning out
   across the nation to deliver nearly 6 million doses of the vaccine
   developed by U.S.-based drug maker Moderna and the National Institutes
   of Health.

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