This is who will get the coronavirus vaccine first

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  • An independent coronavirus vaccine panel made recommendations to the CDC about who should be the first to get COVID-19 vaccines.
  • The panel decided that long-term care residents and health workers will be vaccinated first, followed by other health care employees, essential personnel, and high-risk individuals. The general public would follow.
  • The CDC will decide whether to accept the recommendation for its guidelines, at which point states are expected to follow the agency’s lead. States would also be able to make changes for their local COVID-19 vaccination campaigns.

Steven Soderbergh’s 2011 film Contagion saw a second life this year as the novel coronavirus turned the world into a reflection of what the movie presented. A rapid-spreading, deadly virus that originated from animals infected people in Asia and then took over the entire world. The film reaches a happy end of sorts, as a vaccine is developed, paving the way for a return to normalcy. Soderbergh got many things right about what a modern pandemic would look and feel like... but the lottery-based vaccination at the end of the film makes no sense.

That’s where reality will diverge significantly from the movie. Now that COVID-19 vaccines are nearly ready for emergency use, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will soon issue vaccination guidelines for the US. A panel of experts voted on who should get the vaccine first, and CDC Director Dr. Robert Redfield is expected to make it official soon. States will have the freedom to decide independently, but most will respect the CDC recommendations.

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