CDC says "Education" includes Higher Education for Vaccine Priority

Yours truly has been asking for weeks whether the inclusion of "education" in CDC definitions of non-health workers refers to higher education. No one at UCLA seemed to know. But now there is an answer. Non-health higher ed workers ARE part of CDC's inclusion of education among the 1B vaccine priority group. From Inside Higher Ed:

'...ACIP guidelines call for essential workers, including workers in the education sector, to be included in the second phase, Phase 1B. A spokeswoman for the CDC, Kristen Nordlund, confirmed that "college, university and professional school teachers, support staff, and daycare workers are included in 1B..."'* 

(ACIP = Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices)

There is to be an announcement at UCLA tomorrow about vaccine distribution. That announcement needs to take account of the ACIP definition.

*https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2021/01/13/first-faculty-and-staff-outside-health-care-fields-become-eligible-covid-vaccines