A U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advisory panel made recommendations Sunday to identify elders age 75 and older and front-line workers in key industries as the next cohort of vaccine recipients for the New Crown vaccine, following health care workers and nursing home residents. Meanwhile, the just-approved Modena New Crown vaccine is already being shipped across the United States.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Advisory Committee on Immunization voted 13-1 Sunday to determine that seniors over the age of 75 and workers in frontline critical industries will be the second cohort of New Crown vaccine recipients.
There are approximately 30 million frontline workers in the United States. These include firefighters, police officers, teachers, those working in food processing and agriculture, manufacturing, public transportation, postal services, and food retail.
The second vaccination cohort is expected to reach approximately 49 million people.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved an emergency use authorization application for the new crown vaccine developed by biotechnology company Modena on the 19th of this month. The Pfizer vaccine was previously approved.
General Garth Bonner, who is in charge of vaccine distribution logistics at the U.S. Department of Defense, said at a news conference Sunday that distribution of the Modena vaccine has begun.
He said, “I’ve reported the vaccine distribution numbers to Health Secretary Azar. We are on track to send 20 million strains of vaccine to all areas of competence across the U.S. by the end of December, and distribution of the vaccine will be delayed until in the first week of January next year.”
On Sunday, at a facility in Memphis, Tennessee, workers were packing boxes of Modena New Crown vaccine and loading it onto FedEx trucks for shipment across the United States. Following the second cohort, the U.S. will begin vaccinating a third cohort of people totaling about 57 million. These include people working in the media, finance, energy, IT and other industries, people aged 65 to 74 years, and people aged 16 to 64 years who are at high risk.
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