[국제]CDC Advisory Committee “The next vaccination targets are teachers, grocery store employees, 75 years old ↑”

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In the United States, the corona19 vaccine has been vaccinated from last week, starting with medical workers and long-term care facility residents.

The next top vaccination targets will be grocery store staff and teachers, and seniors aged 75 and over.

Reporter Jo Soo-hyun reports.

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The Vaccination Advisory Committee, an advisory body of the CDC of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, has made recommendations for the next vaccination target.

Our next priority is grocery store staff and teachers, childcare staff, seniors aged 75 and over, and other front-line workers in essential industries.

In the United States, the population of this group is approximately 49 million.

The advisory committee also designated 129 million people as targets for the next level of vaccination.

This includes seniors aged 65 to 74, high-risk ill adults aged 16 to 64, and those in ten sectors including finance, transportation and food services.

Each state has the power to actually rank vaccination targets in the United States.

As such, it is not necessary to follow the recommendations of the CDC Advisory Committee, but it appears to be an important criterion for prioritization.

In fact, according to the advisory committee’s recommendation, state governments are the first to vaccinate health care workers, and long-term care facility residents and employees, who are ranked as a top priority.

The advisory committee explained that it gave state governments flexibility by specifying a wide range of preferred candidates.

This is YTN Soohyun Cho.

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