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As expected, the panel recommended health care workers and first responders get first priority when vaccine supplies are limited. “Everybody knows from the news how deadly this has been for minorities,” panel co-chair William Foege of Emory Rollins School of Public Health said Friday. In practice, state and local health departments ultimately will have control over where they set up vaccination clinics. State and local public health departments will have flexibility in how they implement the recommendations, said committee chairman Dr. Jose Romero, Arkansas’ health secretary. Minorities are overrepresented in health care and other essential industries, so prioritizing those groups — in theory — should increase access for Blacks and Hispanics.