In recommending that states start immunizing all residents 65 and older, along with all those between 16 and 64 with medical conditions that make them more vulnerable to serious disease, U.S. health officials are clearing a path for about 128 million more Americans to be vaccinated.
Demand likely will outstrip supply if states expand immunization to these groups. The U.S. has made about 25 million doses of the vaccine available so far, Azar said, enough to give the first shots to priority groups of health-care personnel and long-term care residents. Both of the vaccines currently available require two shots.
So, if 25 million doses were distributed and there are 24 million people in group 1A, what are we to infer from the government expanding the groups who can get this first round of vaccine? Could it be that a large number of people in group 1A are passing on the opportunity to get a vaccine shot?
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