CDC guidelines for vaccine priority recommend 87 million non-healthcare “essential workers” — an amorphous group that includes various interest groups, journalists, the financial industry — over the elderly in part b/c the elderly are overwhelmingly white. cdc.gov/vaccines/acip/… 
The CDC guidelines are nonbinding but are used by states to set the distribution of the vaccine. Those w/lobbyists and organized advocacy are pushing to be counted as “essential workers.” The elderly and less well resourced workers may be out of luck. theintercept.com/2020/12/10/lob…
The CDC guidelines above (footnote pg 8) cite the DHS critical infrastructure “essential worker” list published in August. That memo explicitly says people who work in banking, defense contracting, even the manufacturing of “fragrances” are essential cisa.gov/sites/default/…
Who lobbied on the DHS critical infrastructure list to be counted as essential workers? The Business Roundtable, a trade group for Fortune 500 CEOs soprweb.senate.gov/index.cfm?even… American Bankers Association soprweb.senate.gov/index.cfm?even… Fragrance Creators Association soprweb.senate.gov/index.cfm?even…
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