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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: 1) by khallow on Wednesday August 05 2020, @12:49PM (4 children)
The effort comes later [soylentnews.org]. And I don't magically know what PartTimeZombie believes until I ask. Here, the flaw is the presumption that doctors are the only parties in the healthcare system with power to decide healthcare for their patients. That is not so, no matter where in the world you are.
(Score: 3, Informative) by PartTimeZombie on Wednesday August 05 2020, @09:08PM (3 children)
While it is true that doctors are not the only parties involved in healthcare decisions, the weirdly American presumption that "the government" will decide anything about healthcare is just wrong.
It is not how publically funded healthcare works, and the idea that it is, is a strawman used to scare Americans away from advocating for proper healthcare.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Thursday August 06 2020, @01:01AM (2 children)
I imagine, if you were to name the country you reside in (Australia, right?), we'd find another country with these "weirdly American" presumptions.
(Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Thursday August 06 2020, @02:44AM (1 child)
You would imagine wrong about that, but of course you've never travelled outside your provincial little state, and you think the third-hand information you get about the rest of the world is actually true.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Thursday August 06 2020, @03:44AM
The third hand information I'm getting from you, that is.