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Frontline Workers, Elderly Next In Line For COVID-19 Vaccine, CDC Says

Americans at least 75 years old and “frontline essential workers” are next in line to receive COVID-19 vaccines in the U.S., after a panel at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention voted Sunday to slate those groups for “Phase 1B” of the coronavirus vaccine rollout.

Here & Now‘s Robin Young speaks with Dr. Amesh Adalja, a senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins University Center for Health Security.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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