Here’s who will likely get a coronavirus vaccine first in the US

• Scientists and academic advisors have laid out a plan for distributing the coronavirus vaccine once a safe and effective drug has been made available to the public.
• The plan features four phases, with the first phase including high-risk health care workers as well as people with underlying conditions that put them at risk.
• Most healthy individuals won't get the vaccine until the second or third phase.

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Sooner or later, a vaccine for the novel coronavirus will roll out and the worst of this pandemic might finally be behind us. Of course, once the FDA has determined that a vaccine is safe and effective, the logistics of distributing hundreds of millions of doses comes into play, which is nearly as daunting as creating a vaccine in the first place.

Many of us simply want to know when we'll have access to a coronavirus vaccine, and on Tuesday, the scientists and academics advising the federal government on the allocation of a vaccine released a draft of a preliminary framework. According to the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, high-risk health care workers should be the first group to get their hands on the vaccine in the earliest of four planned phases.

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