Prioritising who gets vaccinated against COVID-19 can save lives: study

The team identified that front-line essential workers should be a vaccination priority along with or shortly after seniors.

Prioritising who receives the limited supply of COVID-19 vaccines available can save lives and reduce the spread of the viral infection, . Researchers from the University of California (UC), Davis in the U.S. noted that while there is mostly universal agreement that older people should be prioritised for vaccination, debates are currently underway about giving priority to a variety of other groups. "Prioritisation has benefits because people differ in at least two key ways — their risk of infection and the likelihood of serious consequences from infection," said UC Davis professor Michael Springborn, senior author of the study published in the journal PNAS.