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Lefty states take health "equity" into account when deciding who should get the vaccine
SFGbob
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in Tug Tavern
Race based vaccination. Gosh, I wonder if doling out the vaccine based upon race and ethnicity might slowdown the distribution?
At the height of a pandemic that has torn through America’s communities of color with particular ferocity, health officials are engaged in a fraught exercise in fairness: how to nudge communities of color toward the front of the line for scarce vaccines while pretending that race and ethnicity have no influence on vaccine priority.
The country has been deeply divided over quotas and affirmative action since long before the current health crisis. Assigning vaccine priority on the basis of race or ethnic heritage would therefore invite debate, recriminations and legal challenges.
https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2020-12-30/how-race-factors-into-decisions-about-who-should-get-priority-for-covid-19-vaccines
At the height of a pandemic that has torn through America’s communities of color with particular ferocity, health officials are engaged in a fraught exercise in fairness: how to nudge communities of color toward the front of the line for scarce vaccines while pretending that race and ethnicity have no influence on vaccine priority.
The country has been deeply divided over quotas and affirmative action since long before the current health crisis. Assigning vaccine priority on the basis of race or ethnic heritage would therefore invite debate, recriminations and legal challenges.
https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2020-12-30/how-race-factors-into-decisions-about-who-should-get-priority-for-covid-19-vaccines