{"id":973,"date":"2020-12-23T09:48:30","date_gmt":"2020-12-23T14:48:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/covidqanda.org\/?p=973"},"modified":"2020-12-23T09:48:30","modified_gmt":"2020-12-23T14:48:30","slug":"when-will-vaccination-phase-1b-begin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/covidqanda.org\/?p=973","title":{"rendered":"When will vaccination Phase 1b begin?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Note: Happy Holidays! Merry Christmas! Happy New Year! I’m taking a break from the daily Q&A from 12\/24 through 1\/3.\u00a0 If you have a question, go ahead and send it and\u00a0 I’ll aim to respond when I resume posts in the new year. Take care, everyone!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Question:\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>When can we expect the vaccine priority Phase 1b group to begin to get immunized?\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Answer:\u00a0<\/span><\/strong> Likely by late-January.\u00a0 Yesterday, CDC released The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices\u2019 Updated Interim Recommendation for Allocation of COVID-19 Vaccine<\/a>, which confirms that\u00a0“In Phase 1b, COVID-19 vaccine should be offered to persons aged \u226575 years and non\u2013health care frontline essential workers, and in Phase 1c, to persons aged 65\u201374 years, persons aged 16\u201364 years with high-risk medical conditions, and essential workers not included in Phase 1b.”\u00a0 It also offers a helpful table on how many people are in each category (Table 1<\/strong>).\u00a0 As you’ll see, 24 million health care personnel and long-term care facility residents are in Phase 1a.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There’s no set date for when we move to Phase 1b.\u00a0 And as of yesterday, according to Bloomberg News<\/a>, 777,766 doses had been administered since the initial roll-out on\u00a014 December. The daily number vaccinated is increasing with increased distribution, especially thanks to the Moderna vaccine authorization\/roll out.\u00a0 According to data from CDC, Operation Warp Speed allocated enough\u00a0Pfizer vaccination doses<\/a>\u00a0as of 12\/23 to cover 7.658 million people (1st and 2nd doses) and enough Moderna vaccination doses<\/a> to cover 7.995 million people (1st and 2nd doses).\u00a0 If things continue at this pace, we would expect to have enough Pfizer and Moderna doses allocated to cover the full 24 million Phase 1a population by early January.\u00a0 Add to that the time to get the vaccines to administration sites plus the time to get the vaccines administered and we’re probably looking at Phase 1b starting in late-January across most of the country.\u00a0 Indeed, this is what New York State’s Governor Cuomo described<\/a> as its expected timeline (note: in NYS, Phase 1b is called Phase 2<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Table 1. Prioritized Vaccine Group Population Size (millions) <\/strong>(from CDC<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Note: Happy Holidays! Merry Christmas! Happy New Year! I’m taking a break from the daily Q&A from 12\/24 through 1\/3.\u00a0 If you have a question, go ahead and send it and\u00a0 I’ll aim to respond when I resume posts in the new year. Take care, everyone! Question:\u00a0When can we expect the vaccine priority Phase 1b […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":975,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[50,64],"tags":[53],"class_list":["post-973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-guidelines","category-vaccines","tag-new-york","fallback-thumbnail"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/covidqanda.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/December-23.png?fit=2457%2C1379&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/covidqanda.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/covidqanda.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/covidqanda.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/covidqanda.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/covidqanda.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=973"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/covidqanda.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":976,"href":"https:\/\/covidqanda.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973\/revisions\/976"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/covidqanda.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/covidqanda.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/covidqanda.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/covidqanda.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}