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Outrage at Ivy League professor over race remarks on vaccine rollout – BreakingNews [bbcbreakingnews.com]:

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The debate over who should receive COVID-19 [dailymail.co.uk] vaccines next has intensified following suggestions that the elderly should be de-prioritized because they are more likely to be white.

‘Older populations are whiter,’ explained Harald Schmidt, an expert in ethics and health policy at the University of Pennsylvania [dailymail.co.uk], in an interview with the New York Times [nytimes.com].

‘Society is structured in a way that enables them to live longer. Instead of giving additional health benefits to those who already had more of them, we can start to level the playing field a bit,’ he elaborated.

Following the first week of vaccine rollout targeting healthcare workers in high-risk roles, a federal panel of vaccination experts is set to hold an emergency meeting over the weekend to recommend who should be next to get vaccinated.

Based on a prior vote, the panel is expected to recommend that non-healthcare essential workers should take priority over the elderly in the vaccination rollout.

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