A tool has been published in the New York Times (among other places) which can provide you with a guess as to just "where in the COVID19 vaccine line you stand". The tool asks for your year-of-birth, the county where you live (in the US), whether or not you are an "essential worker", and whether or not you have any condition identified by the CDC as putting you at-risk for a severe case of COVID19.

On the New York Times website the tool is located at ...

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/12/03/opinion/covid-19-vaccine-timeline.html

... I believe this is accessible without a subscription. If you can't access the tool on the NYT website, I think you can easily find it with a Google search.

Be Safe!

Interesting! Closer to the front than the back but not by much!

The link works and I can follow my brothers advice (He is a physician who worked in public health) - get it but don't be first in line.....

Each country is going to be different- here in Canada its the elderly in a care home plus their attendants, front line medical staff, and First Nations people. Then ranking according to descending age down to 70 and other first responders. Not sure about teachers and other age specific groups. Politicians are lumped in with the general public - no favourtism for them! Yea! Besides our Prime Minister has already been exposed because his wife had Covid.

My Dad who is 90 and still living at home should be in slightly later than first in line. I'm 61 and reasonably good health so I definitely won't get my shot until March or later (probably later because the politicians have bungled everything up). Everyone should have the opportunity for their dosage by the end of 2021 - it will not be mandatory. I get the regular flu shot every year - any one notice that the flu and the common cold incidences are way down this year? I guess social distancing/masks/sanitizing really helps lower the spread of other communicable diseases too!

In Germany we still work out who gets the shots first - once a vaccine has been approved. After some problems with a swine flu vaccine they may run out of people wanting to have a shot before they run out of shots.
Sanitizing and home office may play a big role in limiting the spreading of the flu. Around here the count of flu fatalities is estimated based on expected deaths. I hope they check before publishing. It would be a little spooky if they came up with a negative number.

The NHS, here in the UK starting tomorrow, are offering to some people in their 80s that already have hospital appointments, care home workers, and other high risk health workers.

I am very much pro-vaccine, as I am against things like smallpox.

I am also a lousy test subject. I understand that vaccines usually take a year or more to test for safety in the USA. Also, as far as I know humanity has never before had a vaccine for any coronavirus.

Most likely I'll be waiting to see what happens with any COVID-19 vaccine for a minimum of some months.

mRNA vaccines are so fundamentally different than prior vaccines - they are the minimalist version of a vaccine, tightly tuned to the target atomic-level structure of a part of the virus (the spike in this case). So I feel good about being in line for the vaccination, and having seen what "long Covid" looks like - and indications of long-term heart damage from even mild cases, I'll be happy when my turn to take the shot comes.

As a volunteer firefighter, I get pushed ever so slightly to the front of the line, but the few remaining EMS people we have absolutely need it before me and my family.

That led me to some very interesting reading, thank you.