COVID-vaccine access plans released
The World Health Organization has released a preliminary plan for globally allocating coronavirus vaccines when they become available. The report urges richer countries to ensure that poorer nations receive vaccines in the early days of allocation. The guidance follows a similar draft plan published by the US National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM) earlier this month. The NASEM report recommends that health-care workers and first responders should be vaccinated first, followed by people with underlying conditions and older people and then essential service workers, such as teachers and grocery-store, transit and postal workers. People from hard-hit ethnic groups are over-represented in these jobs. “We really are trying to make sure that people of colour, who have been disproportionately impacted, will also have priority — but for the factors that put them at risk, not highlighting just their racial and ethnic makeup,” says co-chair of the NASEM committee Helene Gayle.
Nature | 7 min readReferences: WHO report & NASEM report
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