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

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 05 2020, @06:29AM (#1031592)

    Not the ones who are good people though. There's good and bad in everyone. And we learn to live, we learn to give each other what we need to survive together alive.