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Offline PeteS in CA

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Red states prioritize elderly and vulnerable in vaccine distribution, bucking federal guidance
« on: December 29, 2020, 07:33:44 pm »
Red states prioritize elderly and vulnerable in vaccine distribution, bucking federal guidance

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/red-states-prioritize-elderly-vulnerable-vaccine-coronavirus

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Several red states are eschewing federal recommendations for vaccine distribution and prioritizing the elderly and vulnerable over essential workers, in the hopes of saving more lives.

Texas, Florida, South Dakota, and Tennessee have decided to focus on groups that are the most at risk of death, including those with chronic conditions and elderly people who are 65 and up. That is a different distribution plan than the one recommended in mid-December by the federal Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, which said that certain essential workers and those age 75 and older be the next in line for coronavirus vaccinations after healthcare workers and long-term care facility residents.

The argument for key healthcare workers being first in line is that they are most at risk for exposure and their services are critical. The argument for nursing home patients and those with chronic conditions is that they are most likely to die (i.e. greatest reduction of Covid deaths).
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Millions now living should have died. Anti-Covid-Vaxxer ghouls hardest hit.

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Re: Red states prioritize elderly and vulnerable in vaccine distribution, bucking federal guidance
« Reply #1 on: December 29, 2020, 07:44:30 pm »
My very red state has prioritized nursing homes and long-term care facilities, too.
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Gov. Jim Justice and healthcare officials say the state may finish its plan to offer COVID-19 vaccination to all long-term care facilities in the state by the end of the day Monday.

Justice confirmed during his coronavirus press briefing that officials will have been at the 214 nursing homes and long term care facilities in West Virginia to offer the vaccine to residents and staff, by the end of the day.

“That’s a one hundred percent of our long-term care facilities that we will have offered the vaccine to in our state and before other states have even gotten started,” Justice said. ...
WVMetroNews

I won't often say something complimentary about Jim Justice, but he's done a better job with this virus than most governors.
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