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New National and State Estimates for Recommended COVID-19 Vaccination
Priority Population This
month the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) adopted a
recommendation that health care workers and long-term care residents should
be the first to receive the COVID-19 vaccine once it is authorized or
approved by the FDA. A
new KFF analysis estimates there are 15.5 million people
working in health care settings who have direct patient contact, 1.2 million
nursing facility residents and another 800,000 assisted living facility
residents nationwide. These 17.6 million adults, about 7% of U.S. adults,
would qualify for priority vaccinations as the first doses of vaccines are
distributed to states this month, based on the CDC recommendation. The
analysis shows the share of each state’s adult population who are health care
workers with direct patient contact or nursing facility residents, ranging
from 4% in Washington, DC to 10% in North Dakota. California has the largest
number of adults in these groups, more than 1.7 million, followed by Texas
(1.3 million) and New York (1.2 million). Due to data limitations, our
state-level estimates do not include people who live in assisted living
facilities or in other residential settings. While no public
information has been released about initial state allotments of COVID-19
vaccines, certain states may be faced with inadequate vaccine supply for
their priority population and will then have to apply additional factors to
determine priority recipients. For the full state-by-state estimates and
discussion read the full brief, Estimates of the Initial Priority Population for
COVID-19 Vaccination by State. Filling
the need for trusted information on national health issues, KFF (Kaiser Family Foundation)
is a nonprofit organization based in San Francisco, California. |
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