Older People, Some Essential Workers Should Get Vaccines Next, CDC Panel Says

A pharmacist fills a syringe to prepare a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for front-line health care workers in Torrance, Calif., Saturday. A panel of CDC advisers said people 75 and older and some essential workers should be next in line.

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Updated at 7:55 p.m. ET

People who are ages 75 and older and frontline essential workers should be next in line to get a COVID-19 vaccine, a federal advisory committee to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention determined Sunday.

Those groups follow frontline health care workers and nursing home residents, who have already begun receiving the limited supplies of vaccines available.