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Who is next?
Updated On: 19 December, 2020 07:30 AM IST | New York | Agencies
As healthcare workers and nursing home residents get inoculated against coronavirus, US vaccination experts debate who should be next: essential workers or those above 65 and patients with certain conditions
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World War II Navy veteran Lawrence Doyle, 94, receives a COVID-19 vaccination at a care facility on December 17 in Washington. PIC/AFP
The US COVID-19 vaccination campaign has begun, and the few available doses are mostly going into the arms of healthcare workers and nursing home residents.
But what about in January, February and March, when more shots are expected to become available? Who should get those doses? A federal panel of vaccination experts takes up that question at an emergency meeting this weekend. No matter what the committee decides, there will be differences from state to state.
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