Table 2.

OxCGRT vaccination policy categories

Categories
General age categories
• 0–4 yr infants  • 5–15 yr young people  • 16–80+ yr (listed separately in 5-yr groupings)
Vulnerable groups
• Clinically vulnerable/chronic illness/significant underlying health condition (excluding elderly and disabled)  • Residents in an elderly care home  • People living with a vulnerable/shielding person or other priority group  • Disabled people  • Pregnant people  • At-risk 16–80+ yr (listed separately in 5-yr groupings)
Economic function
• Frontline retail workers  • Other ‘high-contact’ professions/groups (taxi drivers, security guards)  • Airport/border staff  • Factory workers  • Frontline/essential workers (when subcategories not specified)
Education
• Educators  • Primary and secondary school students  • Tertiary education students
Healthcare workers
• Healthcare workers/carers (excluding care home staff)  • Staff working in elderly care homes
Public function
• Government officials  • Military  • Police/first responders  • Religious/spiritual leaders
Socially vulnerable
• Ethnic minorities  • Refugees/migrants  • Crowded/communal living conditions (dormitories for migrant workers, temporary accommodations)

The construction of these measures is described more fully in Methods or in further detail on our open-source data repository on GitHub. For more detail, see Supplementary Table 2.

Alternate proposals for vaccine distribution have also been suggested, notably ‘The Fair Priority Model’ that promotes a more ethical distribution of vaccines, ensuring that hoarding of vaccines and vaccine waste are reduced⁹.