As US companies push to get workers vaccinated, states disagree on who's essential

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Companies and industry groups lobbying to get their U.S. workers to the front of the line for COVID vaccination are running into a patchwork of ...

Companies and industry groups lobbying to get their U.S. workers to the front of the line for COVID vaccination are running into a patchwork of state plans and confusion over who is essential, and who is not.

With initial vaccine doses limited and strong federal guidance lacking, it has fallen to U.S. states to determine who will be first in line to receive a vaccine, and who will have to wait well into next year. "For example, Colorado has not moved meatpacking and meat-processing as high as some other states. So we'll be directing a lot of our effort towards places like Colorado where we may be moved down the food chain."

At least 22 industries, including agricultural companies, cleaning suppliers, dental hygienists, bus drivers and meat packers, also have written to the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices , an independent panel of health experts recommending vaccine distribution guidelines to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

While some states have said they would await the committee's further recommendations, others went ahead and developed their own vaccine distribution priorities, a review of COVID-19 vaccine distribution plans showed. But that Homeland Security department list, spanning more than 25 major industries, makes up nearly 70per cent of the U.S. labor force, according to researchers at the National Bureau of Economic Research.

 

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