Dave Lacknauth, executive director of pharmacy services, Broward Health Medical Center, shows off a bottle containing the Pfizer/BioNtech Covid-19 vaccine on December 17 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. | Joe Raedle/Getty Images

The debate about which workers should get the Covid-19 vaccine next, explained.

Uber has spent years and millions of dollars making sure its workers aren’t classified as such and insisting it’s not responsible for those people’s health care. Now the company is pushing for its “earners” — the word it uses to refer to its drivers and delivery people so as not to call them workers — to get priority access to the Covid-19 vaccine.

It’s hardly alone in lobbying public health officials and states to put its people near the top of the list.

Companies and industry groups from across the economy are undertaking efforts at the federal and