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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 05 2020, @01:28PM (1 child)
And this is the main reason why some communities are in so much trouble. the '40s and '50s was a long time ago, there's been a ton of civil rights progress made since then. If the response to everything that goes on is based upon what happened decades previous, then there's absolutely no chance of positive change.
Sometimes, the beliefs aren't even based in reality. Hospitals do not murder black patients in order to steal body parts. The oak trees were cut down decades ago due to Dutch Elm Disease, not because the police needed a better view into people's homes. And white supremacy is something that klansmen and neo-Nazis support, not typical white people. The concept of "white" that they use to justify that is based on a definition of white that's only a few decades old, but we're supposed to believe that the same concept of race was being used centuries before it was even developed?
(Score: 2) by toddestan on Thursday August 06 2020, @11:22PM
Dutch elm disease affected elm trees. Oak trees are totally unaffected. If they said they needed to cut down the oak trees because of Dutch elm disease, then they wanted to cut down those oak trees for some other reason and blamed Dutch elm disease as a convenient (if unrelated) excuse.
Beware of those that'll likewise use COVID as a convenient excuse to do things that they wouldn't otherwise get away with.