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Who Gets a Vaccine First? U.S. Considers Race in Coronavirus Plans:
Federal health officials are already trying to decide who will get the first doses of any effective coronavirus vaccines, which could be on the market this winter but could require many additional months to become widely available to Americans.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and an advisory committee of outside health experts in April began working on a ranking system for what may be an extended rollout in the United States. According to a preliminary plan, any approved vaccines would be offered to vital medical and national security officials first, and then to other essential workers and those considered at high risk — the elderly instead of children, people with underlying conditions instead of the relatively healthy.
Agency officials and the advisers are also considering what has become a contentious option: putting Black and Latino people, who have disproportionately fallen victim to Covid-19, ahead of others in the population.
(Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Tuesday August 04 2020, @11:31PM (6 children)
When I said rich people, I really meant connected people, because they're often the same thing.
Of course rich people who don't have to mingle with the hoi-polloi won't need it until they're sure it's safe.
Political influence in America's vaccine project is SOP, because they can't do a project like that without someone getting their beak wet, can they?
I suspect the rest of us will just leave them alone to get on with it, and make use of the research coming out of Cambridge.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Wednesday August 05 2020, @12:28AM (3 children)
I reckon this time the election takes precedence over SOP.
Beak wetting is so much more profitable when done over long periods of time, with contact extensions and whatnot.
I think that we'll have anything that works and it's safe, may well be even the Russian one if proved so.
After all, it's a matter of just waiting 2-3 months more to see how the early adopters fare in large numbers. NZ (and I hope Aus too in Sept) may be in a good position to wait those 2-3 months.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 05 2020, @03:02AM (2 children)
No way. You can bet your Aussie arse that right now, behind closed doors, that the Yanks and Poms are saying something akin to: "Use or buy the Russian/Chinese vaccines, and, well, what a shame about that economy of yours."
And you know full well that the Australian politicians will put US or British demands above Australian needs. They always have, and always will.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 05 2020, @06:21AM
I think because deep down Australians know they're white trash. They inherited a pristine, ancient continent and littered it with beer cans.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Wednesday August 05 2020, @09:28AM
Actually, I don't know that fully well as you implied [abc.net.au]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday August 05 2020, @02:35AM (1 child)
You might want to do a search for rich, famous, and influential people who have contracted the disease. They DO mix with your hoi poloi. You think a senator, or a congressman, is paying a moderately wealthy person to clean his/her house? Their staff are all wealthy people, who work for 100K+? They only eat food prepared by fellow wealthy people?
You can make an argument that most wealthy people are better protected from the virus than you or I, but they are getting sick all the same.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 05 2020, @01:16PM
Not only are they getting sick, but their selfish efforts to avoid getting sick led to the disease making it's way more quickly to the communities where their vacation properties are. Really, the mega-wealthy need to be lined up against the nearest wall and shot with the most convenient gun available. They won't let us have any of the necessary medical infrastructure to deal with the pandemic and then do whatever they can to save themselves while the rest of the country burns.