The committee generally agreed that health-care workers should get the first doses of vaccine because of the risks to them and their patients and because they play a crucial role in fighting the coronavirus. Vulnerable long-term care residents also are in this first group, though members debated their situation at some length. Essential workers, including food, education, and energy workers, as well a police and firefighters, should be in the second priority group because these workers often don’t have luxury of working from home and tend to be racially and demographically diverse