Firefighters want vaccine shot priority
Firefighters, who spend more time acting as first responders than putting out fires, want to be on the same vaccine priority list as ambulance paramedics, since they’re exposed to the same risks from patients. They have a good point.
mare 10:07 on 2021-01-20 Permalink
Agreed, they travel with a bunch of them in a small enclosed space, so if one of them gets infected they might spread it to all. Ambulance paramedics are in an enclosed space sitting next to patients though, when they are transported to the hospital, often performing medical procedures, so run an elevated risk.
Joey 11:00 on 2021-01-20 Permalink
This makes sense to me, though by now we should have a very good idea of who is most likely to spread COVID-19 if infected as well as who is so so critical that we cannot really afford to have an outbreak among their typical contact group. A priori you would think EMTs, firefighters, etc., would be in both those groups – if we had proper contact, we’d have evidence to prove or disprove that. I suspect we don’t.
jeather 12:30 on 2021-01-20 Permalink
That seems reasonable. Our priority list is a little weird once we get past the top 3 groups, too — shouldn’t teachers be in a higher group? I hope that part of it is that we don’t have enough to go into more detail after that, but I doubt it.