CDC votes to give first Covid-19 vaccine to health care workers, long-term care facility residents, once FDA authorizes vaccine

[Skeptic]

@jerwin

The only member of the committee to vote against the recommendation was Dr. Helen Talbot, an infectious-disease specialist at Vanderbilt University, who expressed discomfort with putting long-term-care residents in the first priority group because the vaccines’ safety had not been studied in that particular population. “We enter this realm of ‘we hope it works and we hope it’s safe,’ and that concerns me on many levels,” she said before the vote.

Well, ok, plausible reasoning. The testing has been greatly shortened and the most vulnerable to Covid are also the most vulnerable to side effects, and are a population the vaccine probably hasn’t even been tested on. So, dunno. Out of my wheelhouse…