States face tough questions about who should get Covid-19 vaccines after the initial groups

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With the first shipments of a coronavirus vaccine poised to go out as early as this week, the plan to get the shots from the manufacturers into hospitals, assisted living homes, pharmacies and – ultimately – Americans’ arms, is still riddled with unknowns.

States are already running into challenges when it comes to distributing the vaccine to their first priority group and that is when there are only limited distribution points and a very narrow focus of who is meant to receive the vaccine. The issues around distribution and who gets the vaccine grow even more complicated when states eventually move past their highest priority populations and start opening up more vaccination sites to vaccinate larger groups of the population.

At this point, the number of doses each state is getting in its first shipment is fluid and, in many cases, the amount is less than what states were initially told to expect leading states to change distribution plans even as the first shipments could come as soon as the end of this week.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/09/health/covid-vaccine-distribution-states/index.html

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