When vaccine is limited, who gets vaccinated first?

Details

• Corporate Authors:
  National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases (U.S.). Division of Viral Diseases.
• Description:
  Updated Dec. 16, 2020
  
  Because the supply of COVID-19 vaccine in the United States will be limited at first, CDC recommends that initial supplies of COVID-19 vaccine be allocated to healthcare personnel and long-term care facility residents. CDC made this recommendation on December 3, 2020, and based it on recommendations from the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), an independent panel of medical and public health experts.
  
  The recommendations were made with these goals in mind:
  
  • Decrease death and serious disease as much as possible.
  
  • Preserve functioning of society.
  
  • Reduce the extra burden COVID-19 is having on people already facing disparities.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Coronavirus Infections/prevention & Control COVID-19 Vaccines Health Care Rationing/ethics Health Equity/ethics Health Resources Pandemics/ethics Pandemics/prevention & Control Pneumonia, Viral/prevention & Control Social Justice Social Values Vaccination Coverage/ethics Viral Vaccines

  More +
• Document Type:
  Webpage
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• Collection(s):
  Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:ede062415dac37ce80272a7b7dd6f037c52d6e8d2354863789209f54b7456dbe
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/98903/cdc_98903_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 97.73 KB ]