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Table 3 List of vaccine priority groups other than health care workers, essential service providers, high risk individuals and healthy adults/children

From: Prioritization strategies for pandemic influenza vaccine in 27 countries of the European Union and the Global Health Security Action Group: a review

 

EE

GR

IE

IT

JP

MT

RO

SK

SE

UK

US

N = 11 (100%)

Reported by countries as specific vaccine priority group

            

Long term care facility residentsA

      

X

    

1 (9%)

Individuals living in "closed communities" (e.g. nursing homes)A

.

X1

.

.

.

.

  

.

.

.

1 (9%)

Individuals in crowding area (e.g. schools)

.

X1

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

1 (9%)

Staff of workplaces where many people gather (e.g. banks, shops)

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

X

.

.

.

1 (9%)

"Selected age groups, depending on national and/or WHO advice"B

.

.

X

.

 

X

.

.

.

X

.

3 (27%)

Selected industries (e.g. pharmaceuticals)C

.

.

X

.

 

.

.

.

.

X

.

2 (18%)

(Sub) groups not clearly categorized as belonging to main groups

            

Pandemic vaccine manufacturersD

.

.

.

X2

.

.

X4

.

.

.

X5

3 (27%)

Household contacts of immunocompromised personsE

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

X

.

.

X

2 (18%)

Household contacts of high-risk patients

X

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

X

.

.

2 (18%)

Household contacts of children

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

X

1 (9%)

Seniors

    

X3

      

1 (9%)

  1. A Specified as additional vaccine priority group to the "high risk individuals"; while in other countries these individuals may be included in seasonal vaccination group; B Vaccination policy might be revised in the event of one or more age groups being more severely affected in a pandemic; C Reported as separate vaccine priority group; while in other countries these individuals might have been included, but had not been listed, under the "essential workers"; D Countries have specifically reported this (sub) group while in other countries these might have been included, but had not been listed, under "essential workers"; E This category also includes "family members of persons with impaired immunity" (SK); 1 Currently in the process of discussing and refining further priority groups, information in the table includes "suggested" priority groups as published in the National Pandemic Plan; 2 Not listed in National Pandemic Plan, but updated information received from country representative; 3 Reported as separate vaccine priority groups in draft guidelines; 4 Specified as separate (1 of 6) vaccine priority group; 5 Specified as 'subtier' belonging to one of four 'tiers' and includes also antiviral manufacturers