Residents get the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at the Emerald Court senior living community in Anaheim, CA on Friday, January 8, 2021.
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The Trump administration will issue new guidelines Tuesday that expand coronavirus vaccine eligibility to everyone 65-years-old and above, a senior administration official told CNBC.
The states’ focus on vaccinating health-care workers and nursing homes has created a bottleneck, the official said. “The states are being told immediately they need to expand to 65-plus as well as those under 65 with comorbid conditions,” the official said, asking not to be named because it hasn’t been formally announced yet.
The Trump administration is expected to announce the change at a press conference Tuesday with officials from Operation Warp Speed, President Donald Trump’s vaccine program.
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