Chinanews.com, December 21. According to the US Chinese website, a federal advisory committee of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommended on the 20th that the next batch of groups to be vaccinated against the new crown includes elderly people aged 75 and over and key frontline jobs By.
After that, the relevant recommendations will be submitted to the CDC for final consideration.
According to reports, the Advisory Committee on Immunization (ACIP) voted 13 votes to 1 to determine the population who will be vaccinated in the next stages of the first stage, namely stages 1b and 1c.
Data map: On December 14, local time, Stephanie, a nurse at the Jewish Medical Center in Long Island, New York, was vaccinated against the new crown.
Photo by China News Agency reporter Liao Pan
According to the report, the Federal Advisory Committee recommends that the population vaccinated in stage 1b includes elderly people aged 75 and above, as well as necessary front-line staff, including teachers, police, firefighters, prison guards, and supermarket employees; stage 1c includes 65 to 74 People aged 16 to 64 years of age suffering from high-risk diseases, and other non-first-line necessary workers.
In addition, the committee also discussed the scope of the population for the second phase of vaccination, which may start as early as February 2021.
At present, the United States has approved vaccines developed by Pfizer Pharmaceuticals and German Biotech, as well as vaccines developed by Modena.
Nancy Messenier, head of the National Immunization and Respiratory Diseases Department of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said that deciding who will give priority to vaccinations is not easy.
As the number of vaccines was insufficient at the beginning of the market, the United States has developed a phased vaccination plan.
At present, the first stage of vaccination population has begun, including front-line health care workers and personnel in long-term care institutions.