Biden to let health experts decide who will get Covid vaccine first: Gounder
Washington: US President-elect Joe Biden will let health experts decide who will get a COVID-19 vaccine in the country first, according to Dr.
Celine Gounder, a member of his coronavirus advisory board.Since the risk for COVID-19 can vary among different groups of people, prioritisation for a vaccine will be tricky, and Biden will leave those decisions to health experts, the Indian-American infectious disease physician said.It is expected that there will likely be a limited supply of coronavirus vaccine doses available immediately after a vaccine is authorised by the US Food and Drug Administration."Other than health care workers, others who will be first in line to get it will be people who do have chronic underlying medical conditions who.
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