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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 05 2020, @01:24PM (1 child)
The parent poster is not wrong. One of the big reasons that the civil rights movement of the '50s and '60s was so effective is that they had smart people organizing and they were fighting real problems. These days, most of the problems they're fighting are stupid and not even communicated to other groups in an intelligent way. Even when videos do come out that clearly indicate that the movement is wrong, you never hear any acknowledgement about it.
If they want credibility, it would be helpful to be less ignorant and racist than the people that you're accusing of being ignorant and racist. Much of what they're fighting to end was already dealt with or is already illegal. Once laws are changed, it can take decades for the results to finalize.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 05 2020, @04:05PM
Good point. You got the vote. So vote, don't come bitching at me that 70% of you don't vote.