CDC voting now on vaccine prioritization

[jon-nyc]

It's just guidelines, but will obviously have a lot of influence. Individual states will set final policies, but they'll almost certainly start with the guidelines and tweak from there.

Expectation is HC workers first, nursing home residents second.

Personally I would reverse those. Or maybe break HC workers into two categories, those actually working ERs and Covid wards etc., vs all others. Because 'health care workers' is like 20MM people. I can't see how the radiologist in his basement office of the hospital needs to be first.

Anyway those two categories will probably be more than there are doses available in 2020.

[George K]

@jon-nyc said in CDC voting now on vaccine prioritization:

break HC workers into two categories, those actually working ERs and Covid wards etc., vs all others...I can't see how the radiologist in his basement office of the hospital needs to be first.

You misspelled "home office."

[Loki]

I think they will do a really good job although I have no idea how much criticism they will get. I will take it all with a grain of salt.

States have a lot to say. They will have to approve sites, I think there are registries I.e. immunization which will have a hand in this.

A lot will depend on if Moderna gets approved to as there will be so many more doses.

I think the allocation by state is done already.

[taiwan_girl]

I think Taiwanese females who immigrated to the US should be first. 555

[bachophile]

@George-K said in CDC voting now on vaccine prioritization:

@jon-nyc said in CDC voting now on vaccine prioritization:

break HC workers into two categories, those actually working ERs and Covid wards etc., vs all others...I can't see how the radiologist in his basement office of the hospital needs to be first.

You misspelled "home office."

I think you misspelled home office in Mumbai.

[Jolly]

Our guys are in Australia.

[jon-nyc]

How about that. They did what I hoped.

WASHINGTON — An independent panel advising the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention voted Tuesday to recommend that residents and employees of nursing homes and similar facilities be the first people in the United States to receive coronavirus vaccines, along with health care workers who are especially at risk of being exposed to the virus.

They’ll let the states figure out what subset of health workers are especially at risk.

The disappointing thing is that this was just detailed guidance for the relative few vaccines coming out in 2020.

It will be interesting to see them try to prioritize within the scores of millions who have chronic conditions that render them more at risk.

Another interesting thing, the vote was 13-1. That 1 outlier was concerned that we are going to roll it out first to a group that was in the exclusion criteria of the studies (most of them test up to 65) so it hasn’t been tested on them.

I’ve given that last point a lot of thought since every clinical trial I’ve seen explicitly excluded the immunosuppressed.

[Jolly]

I'll let y'all know how it goes.