Panel Recommends First COVID-19 Vaccines Go to Health Care Personnel, Nursing Homes

Nurse Kathe Olmstead gives a volunteer an injection as a study of a possible COVID-19 vaccine, developed by the National Institutes of Health and Moderna Inc., gets underway in Binghamton, N.Y., on July 27, 2020. Hans Pennink/AP Photo

An advisory committee on Tuesday said the first COVID-19 vaccines should go to health care workers and residents of long-term care facilities.

The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices voted 13-1 in a meeting to decide what recommendations to give to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for how the first vaccines are distributed.