As COVID vaccines are being rolled out, an extremely vulnerable group is being overlooked: millions of cancer patients. Doctors are sounding the alarm that many state governments and the federal advisory committee charged with prioritizing who gets vaccinated should move cancer patients up to the front of the line, right after nursing-home residents and frontline health workers. Right now, they're deemed a lower priority than “essential workers,” such as firefighters, mass-transit employees, possibly even supermarket clerks.
