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 The new guidelines will suggest opening up vaccinations to everyone
older than 65, the report said, citing a senior administration
official.
The drive to speed up the process will also include expanding venues
where people can get vaccinated to community health centers and more
pharmacies, according to the report.
Nearly 9 million people in the United States had been given their
first COVID-19 vaccination dose as of Monday, according to the U.S.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
But public health experts have said no U.S. state has so far come
close to using up its federal allotments of vaccines, a much
slower-than-expected roll-out blamed in part on rigid rules sharply
limiting who can be inoculated.
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States have so far been prioritizing healthcare
workers and elderly long-term care residents for
the first vaccinations. The CDC has laid out a
possible framework of three distribution phases,
suggesting essential workers and people aged 65
and older as the next priority.
(Reporting by Maria Ponnezhath in Bengaluru;
Editing by Andrew Heavens and Alison Williams)
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