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Tennessee advisory panel deemed vaccinating inmates a 'PR nightmare'

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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A Tennessee advisory panel tasked with deciding in what order residents should receive the COVID-19 vaccine acknowledged that prison inmates in the state were high-risk, but concluded that prioritizing them for inoculation could be a "public relations nightmare."The result: Prisoners are in the last group scheduled for vaccines in the state, even though the Pandemic Vaccine Planning Stakeholder group concluded that "if untreated they will be a vector of general population transmission," according to records of the panel's closed-door meetings obtained by The Associated Press.

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