U.S. asked to prioritize frontline essential workers as distribution of ...

An advisory panel on Sunday recommended U.S. frontline essential workers and people 75 and older should be next in line to get inoculated as ...

Report COVID-19: Essential Workers in the States

In December ACIP recommended prioritizing residents in long term care facilities and health care personnel to receive the initial COVID-19 vaccines and proposed ...

UFCW: Governors Must Act on CDC Vaccine Priority for Essential ...

“America's essential workers are bravely putting themselves in harm's way in grocery stores and meatpacking plants to feed our families. Many of ...

Did prioritizing essential workers help to achieve racial/ethnic equity ...

Most US states and counties prioritized essential workers for early access to COVID‐19 vaccines due to their heightened occupational risk.

Who is 'essential'? Food and farm workers left in limbo in vaccine ...

The industry is clamoring to prioritize frontline food workers who kept Americans fed throughout the worst of the pandemic even as thousands of them fell sick ...

CDC Panel Says Frontline Workers and People Over 74 Should Get ...

Other types of essential workers, such as construction and restaurant workers, would qualify for a third wave of prioritization under the ...

Gov. Cooper Announces Frontline Essential Workers Eligible for ...

Cooper. “The third vaccine and improving vaccine supply will help us get more people vaccinated more quickly. Our essential frontline workers ...

Categories of Essential Workers: COVID-19 Vaccination | CDC

Categories of essential workers, as part of ACIP's recommended phased allocation of COVID-19 vaccines. Phase 1b includes frontline essential workers,

CDC panel says essential workers, people 75 and older get Covid ...

The committee was asked to thread the needle between competing values of the need to prioritize essential workers, who keep society functioning, ...

Congressional Hispanic Caucus Urges Governors to Follow CDC ...

WASHINGTON, D.C.—On Thursday, Members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus (CHC) sent a letter to the National Governors Association (NGA) ...

Essential workers get lost in the vaccine scrum as states prioritize ...

As states try to speed rollout of coronavirus vaccines by adding people 65 and older to near the front of the line, front-line essential ...

A Rapid Review of COVID-19 Vaccine Prioritization in the U.S. - NCBI

Results: Healthcare workers and those in long-term care facilities were largely prioritized in line with Federal guidance. Aside from early ...

5 Ways Employers Can Begin Preparing As The COVID-19 Vaccine ...

While there is some variance, Phase 1B as adopted by the states will focus on the elderly population and “frontline” essential workers. The ACIP ...

Amazon asks CDC to prioritize its essential workers for COVID-19 ...

Jose Romero, the CDC's chairman of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), Amazon's Dave Clark, senior vice president of ...

Beyond the Rhetoric of Equity: Will the Frontline Healthcare Workers ...

If the initial distribution of a COVID-19 vaccine is to be prioritized to different groups, those groups must be clearly identified in a transparent process.

Did prioritizing essential workers help to achieve racial/ethnic equity ...

Most US states and counties prioritized essential workers for early access to COVID-19 vaccines due to their heightened occupational risk.

Older People, Some Essential Workers Should Get Vaccines Next ...

... frontline essential workers next in line for COVID-19 vaccines ... distribution, which encompasses the first months of vaccine distribution.

America's Largest Food & Retail Union Calls on CDC for COVID-19 ...

“As the largest union for America's essential workers in grocery, meatpacking, and food processing, UFCW is calling on the CDC to prioritize ...

US vaccine roll-out's next challenge: Verifying who is 'essential'

The criteria to qualify as an essential, front-line worker varies from state to state. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) ...

Some states buck federal vaccine recommendations and prioritize ...

The panel recommended putting people 75 and older and essential front-line workers in the next priority group. Front-line essential workers ...