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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, Touché) by sorokin on Wednesday August 05 2020, @09:45AM (1 child)
> If your goals is to minimise deaths, and there are proportionally more deaths in the black and latino population, then it's not racist to focus your efforts where they are most required.
Men should get the vaccine first. And, it is not sexist to focus your efforts where they are most required.
(Score: 2) by Mykl on Thursday August 06 2020, @01:36AM
I agree - broadly speaking, if men are getting COVID more and dying more, then they should get the vaccine ahead of women.