With great power

28 December 2020 By Gina Chon Follow @GinaChon

Amazon, Uber and Cargill are among those lobbying for their workers to get priority access. They have a solid case for saying their staff are essential. But employing a workforce that’s critical to the national interest should come with responsibilities as well as privileges.

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A committee advising the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention made recommendations on Dec. 20 regarding which groups of people should be next to receive Covid-19 vaccines in the Phase 1 distribution.

The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, an independent panel, decided that decided that 30 million frontline essential workers like first responders, teachers and grocery store workers, should be in the next tranche, along with people at least 75 years old.

They fall under the 1b group after healthcare workers, who were the top priority to receive inoculations. It will be up to states to decide whether they want to follow those guidelines amid a shortage in the vaccine supply.

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