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CDC to recommend next round of COVID-19 vaccines for adults 75 and older, frontline workers
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends that adults 75 and older and those in essential roles such as first responders, teachers, farmworkers, prison guards, grocery store workers and public transit employees should be next in line for COVID-19 vaccines, according to recommendations from a CDC advisory committee and published by CDC on Tuesday. The full recommendations are publicly available for states, local officials, and employers to refer to as they decide who to vaccinate as more doses become available and more people from the first phase, health care workers and residents in nursing homes and long term care facilities, are vaccinated. Exactly when the COVID-19 vaccine will be available to the frontline essential workers will be decided by each state, which can also set their own lists of which people in essential jobs will qualify and how counties or employers should decide who to vaccine first.