US to vaccinate four categories of people during a pandemic
The US government has unveiled a plan which creates four categories of people to be vaccinated in case of pandemic outbreak; the top tier of each category will be vaccinated first
Deployed military troops, emergency workers, pregnant women, and children will be among the first to get scarce vaccinations if a pandemic strain of flu breaks out, U.S. officials said.
A long-awaited report lays out who would be first in line to get vaccinated against H5N1 bird flu or any other strain of pandemic influenza. The Health and Human Services (HHS) report proposes creating four categories of people, and vaccinating the top tier of each category first.
The categories are homeland and national security, critical infrastructure, health and community support services and the general population. "Certain military personnel like deployed forces would get vaccinated before certain other military personnel," HHS science adviser William Raub said in a telephone interview. www.hsdailywire.com
