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CDC panel moves health workers, nursing home residents to front of COVID vaccine line

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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) vaccine advisory group, in an emergency meeting today, approved an interim recommendation for who should receive the first COVID-19 vaccine doses once authorized, which puts healthcare workers and nursing home residents at the front of the line.CDC officials said the recommendation is a guide for health departments that are placing their vaccine orders and are determining how they want to provide the doses.

Though the recommendation mentions healthcare workers first, CDC officials said there is no preferential order between them and long-term care residents.Urgency amid rise in hospitalizations, deathsIn opening comments, Beth Bell, MD, MPH, a member of the Advisory Committee on

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