I Googled for “health care workers” and was assuming they would count as part of that 18 million, but didn’t look more carefully than that. Some health care workers will refuse the vaccine, at least for a few months, and some have already had the virus, and it’s all ballpark estimates. The basic idea is, you can do the consensus-essential people more or less in 2020, but that’s your whole budget.
At the end of the article, you wrote “Adding in police and firemen would make it an even 20.” Does adding EMS personnel change the estimate at all?
I Googled for “health care workers” and was assuming they would count as part of that 18 million, but didn’t look more carefully than that. Some health care workers will refuse the vaccine, at least for a few months, and some have already had the virus, and it’s all ballpark estimates. The basic idea is, you can do the consensus-essential people more or less in 2020, but that’s your whole budget.