The Associated Press.The committee also reportedly weighed a recommendation that frontline essential workers — which include firefighters, police officers, teachers, and those who work in key sectors such as grocery stores, the postal service, and mass transit — receive priority over older adults when it comes to who is in the second group of those to be vaccinated (Group 1B).But that recommendation was heavily criticized by figures from across the political spectrum, and the committee’s final recommendation was that frontline essential workers and people over age 75 receive equal priority.A third priority group includes other non-health care essential workers, including those in public utilities, food service jobs, legal and financial.
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