Truckers now recommended for third COVID vaccine group

[Mike]

Following a meeting of a federal advisory board on Sunday, Dec. 20, truck drivers and other transportation and logistics personnel are now in the third group recommended to receive the COVID-19 vaccine, only behind other frontline essential workers.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) placed truckers in Phase 1c, based on the group attempting to find a balance between preventing deaths and preserving a functioning society.

In the first group, Phase 1a, are people in long-term care facilities and healthcare personnel. This group has already started receiving the vaccine from the first vaccine shipments that went out last week.

The second group, Phase 1b, consists of people 75 years old and older, and “frontline essential workers.” Phase 1c, the third group that includes truck drivers, includes people 65-74 years old, those between 16 and 64 with high-risk medical conditions, and “other essential workers.”

Truckers now included in third COVID vaccine group

A federal advisory committee recommended that truck drivers be in Phase 1c of the COVID-19 vaccine distribution, only behind healthcare workers and other essential frontline workers. And other news: Congress is nearing the passage of a new COVID stimulus bill; a trucker was charged in New York...

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If you want it, as a truck driver you will be able to get it relatively soon.

 

[Duck]

so a truck driver with COPD and 67 should I be 3A?

1c

 

[Oxbow]

so a truck driver with COPD and 67 should I be 3A?

You should be in at least a couple of Hall of Fames! (fishermans, truckers, redhead chasers, women from the most number of states and countries, .....I'm sure there's more!)

 

[Fast Freddy]

Seems many fear the vaccine and don’t want it. I’ll take my chances and get it soon as I can. Just to do my part to end the lockdowns.

 

[Duck]

Just to do my part to end the lockdowns.

Go stand in front of a mirror and slap yourself.

 

[Oxbow]

Go stand in front of a mirror and slap yourself.

Therein lies the whole problem in my mind. I know that you are just joking (sort of), but letting each individual respond according to the risks as they see fit rather than mandating behavior of all would seem a far better solution at this point. When this all started I could see the argument for shutting things down for a short period, like the two weeks that it was supposed to be, so as to learn a bit more and try not to overwhelm healthcare facilities.

At this point in time everyone should know the risks.

 

[Fast Freddy]

Go stand in front of a mirror and slap yourself.

Lol,