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posted by Fnord666 on Tuesday August 04 2020, @09:02PM   Printer-friendly
from the who-is-at-the-most-risk? dept.

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.


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  • (Score: 4, Informative) by sjames on Wednesday August 05 2020, @02:09AM (9 children)

    by sjames (2882) on Wednesday August 05 2020, @02:09AM (#1031534) Journal

    More analysis is needed to see why. If it's because more Black and Latino people are essential workers, the disparity is already addressed by giving it to essential workers first. If it's a genetic difference, we need to study it for possible treatments. If it's an economic disparity that happens to follow ethnicity, we need to give it to lower income people first.

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  • (Score: 2, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 05 2020, @06:14AM (4 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 05 2020, @06:14AM (#1031583)

    What the hell difference does it make?

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 05 2020, @06:29AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 05 2020, @06:29AM (#1031594)

      The Fee-Fees

    • (Score: 3, Informative) by sjames on Wednesday August 05 2020, @01:21PM (2 children)

      by sjames (2882) on Wednesday August 05 2020, @01:21PM (#1031692) Journal

      Prioritization based on correct/appropriate criteria can save lives and reduce economic damage. Using wrong/inappropriate criteria can cost lives and increase economic damage.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 05 2020, @03:56PM (1 child)

        by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 05 2020, @03:56PM (#1031794)

        Sounds like "Thoughts and Prayers" after the latest kid massacre.

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 05 2020, @04:58PM

          by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 05 2020, @04:58PM (#1031818)

          Sounds like "Thoughts and Prayers" after the latest kid massacre.

          What a steaming pile of crap from a worm-infested ferret!

          Beyond the fact that creating vaccine distribution policy recommendations is a completely different sport than tut-tutting over dead kids, your cavalier attitude to both is a little disturbing.

          GP said [soylentnews.org]:

          Prioritization based on correct/appropriate criteria can save lives and reduce economic damage. Using wrong/inappropriate criteria can cost lives and increase economic damage.

          What might that criteria be? To me, it makes sense that those who are most vulnerable to life-threatening complications/have the most potential for exposure should be prioritized over other folks.

          I'd (still waiting for that call from the CDC asking for my input on this important subject) recommend that priority be given to the elderly, the immuno-compromised, those who deal with Coronavirus patients, others who deal, in person, with large numbers of other people (EMTs, bus drivers, teachers, cops, etc.) as well as those in zip codes/census tracts [msu.edu] with the highest case/complications/mortality rates.

  • (Score: -1, Troll) by Dr Spin on Wednesday August 05 2020, @06:54AM (2 children)

    by Dr Spin (5239) on Wednesday August 05 2020, @06:54AM (#1031608)

    The science says most of this is accounted for by low levels of vitamin D which is very cheap. It is normally produced in the skin by sunlight (from cholesterol).

    About 70% of "Afro-Americans" and 50% of Latinos in the USA have low levels of Vitamin D. There is clear evidence that low vitamin D makes respiratory disease,
    including Covid-19 worse.

    What is not clear is why governments are not publicising this - here in the UK it looks like "fear of being accused of being racist". No one in an American government has ever
    been worried about being accused of being racist AFAICT. Trump appears to revel in it.

    I take Vitamin D supplement - you should too, regardless of colour.

    --
    Warning: Opening your mouth may invalidate your brain!
    • (Score: 2) by PiMuNu on Wednesday August 05 2020, @12:06PM (1 child)

      by PiMuNu (3823) on Wednesday August 05 2020, @12:06PM (#1031652)

      > The science says

      Do you have a citation? Too much bs (and genuine mistakes) around...

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 05 2020, @03:57PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 05 2020, @03:57PM (#1031795)

        I heard it was colloidal silver. Better take that too, just in case.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 05 2020, @06:50PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 05 2020, @06:50PM (#1031882)

    it's socio-economic, ffs