Major U.S. Companies are Lobbying in a Scrum for Early Vaccine

What is clear is that there won’t be enough doses to go around for months. Local officials in each state will have to make tough choices about which essential workers get their shots first.

“It almost feels like a wrestling match out there, where many interests want to make it clear that the people they represent have a lot of essential workers,” said Jonathan Slotkin, chief medical officer of Contigo Health, which leads partnerships between large national employers and hospital systems. Companies are displaying a “voracious appetite” for vaccines for their workforces, he said.

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