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Should Prisoners Get Covid-19 Vaccines Early?

Public health experts urge making them a priority—but some push back.

Now that shipments of Covid-19 vaccine are on the move and FDA approval on the fast track, the fight begins over who will get the scarce vaccine first.

States have until Friday to finalize distribution plans and submit them to the federal government, including priorities for early access to the vaccine, since manufacturers say supply of the vaccine According to more than 40 draft proposals analyzed by the and The Marshall Project, in at least

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