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These six groups are nursing home residents, people with chronic medical conditions like asthma, the elderly, pregnant women, health care workers, and children from ages 6 months to 2 years, Butler said.

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In the effort to save the lives of women and children, we need strong economies and supportive policies to drive local solutions that improve health care.

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Pregnant women, people caring for children under the age of 6 months, health care workers and adults under the age of 65 with chronic illness also are considered at high risk.

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In such a case, the priority groups would be pregnant women, health care and emergency services workers with direct patient contact, household contacts of children younger than 6 months, children age 6 months to 4 years and children younger than 19 with chronic medical conditions -- a total of 42 million people.

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Today, today we are completing the process of giving the nine million men, women and children who receive their health benefits through the federal government all the vital patient protections recommended by the Health Care Quality Commission.

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