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August 4, 2020

Who goes first in line for COVID-19 vaccine?

  • Even if a vaccine is declared safe and effective by year's end, there won't be enough for everyone who wants it right away — and most potential vaccines require two doses.
    • By LAURAN NEERGAARD
    AP Medical Writer

    Who gets to be first in line for a COVID-19 vaccine? U.S. health authorities hope by late next month to have some draft guidance on how to ration initial doses, but it's a vexing decision.

    “Not everybody's going to like the answer,” Dr. Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health, recently told one of the advisory groups the government asked to help decide. “There will be many people who feel that they should have been at the top of the list.”


     
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