Source: Jacqui Fatka, FARM PROGRESS, 12/21/20


Frontline meat and poultry workers should be among the first to be vaccinated after health care workers and those in long-term care facilities, according to federal guidance approved by the Centers for Disease Control’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Priority. In a vote on Sunday, the CDC recommended that frontline essential workers be in the “Phase 1b” of allocation of the vaccine designed to offer protection against the novel coronavirus. The so-called Phase 1b group is estimated to include about 49 million people, or nearly 15% of Americans. 

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