The COVID-19 vaccine was launched this week, and there is now a debate over which groups should be a priority on the waiting list for the coronavirus vaccine. The New York Times tried to answer the question about the COVID-19 priority list in an article entitled “The Elderly Vs. key workers: who should receive the coronavirus vaccine first? ”
The article presented health experts, economists and epidemiologists to figure out who should go to the front line for the COVID-19 vaccine. To the shock of many readers, experts considered the race when deciding who received priority in receiving the life-saving vaccine.
Dr. Peter Szilagyi, a committee member and professor of pediatrics at the University of California, Los Angeles, said: “The issue of ethics is very significant, very important for this country and clearly favors the group of essential workers because of the large proportion of minority workers. , with low incomes and low education among essential workers. ”
Harald Schmidt, an ethics and health policy expert at the University of Pennsylvania, told the New York Times: “It is reasonable to put essential workers before older adults, given their risks and disproportionate minorities.”
“Older populations are whiter,” Schmidt told the newspaper. “Society is structured in a way that allows them to live longer. Instead of offering additional health benefits to those who have already had more of them, we can begin to level the playing field a little bit.”
Schmidt proclaimed that essential workers should be given priority over the vaccine over the elderly, even though people between the ages of 75 and 84 are 220 times more likely to die of coronavirus than older adults. young people, and anyone over the age of 85 is 630 times more likely, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Marc Lipsitch, an infectious disease epidemiologist at Harvard’s TH Chan School of Public Health, also suggested that a person’s race should determine who should or should not be given priority on the coronavirus waiting list. Lipsitch said teachers should not be considered essential workers, “if a central goal of the committee is to reduce health inequities.”
“Teachers have middle-class salaries, are often white, and have college degrees,” Lipsitch told the Times.
Elise Gould, a senior economist at the Institute for Economic Policy, said teachers should be given priority because it would allow people to return to work with reliable childcare in schools.
“And if you generally think about people who have jobs where they can’t work, they’re disproportionately black and brown,” Gould said. “They will have a bigger challenge when childcare is an issue.”
Twitter User Jason Compson was one of the first people to highlight the racial aspects of the distribution of the coronavirus vaccine found in the New York Times article.
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BlazeTV personality Dave Rubin broke the article “Just The NY Times quoting a doctor who wants to kill elderly white people for political purposes. (Which was the next obvious step in the trash that the NY Times has been pushing for years.) “Ethics Expert” doesn’t mean what he used before. ”
BlazeTV Allie Beth Stuckey of the “Relatable” podcast, he pointed out: “This is so crazy bad. Please, wake up Christians, continue as the critical theory of race is just a right-wing bogeyman who is not a real threat. Tell me again about how Christian nationalism is our biggest threat. ”
Cronist New York Post Miranda Devine wrote:Really disgusting. Eugenie approved. The elderly are most at risk and should be the first in line for a vaccine. The color of their skin is immaterial. What happened to the medical profession? “
one commentator he replied: “This thread shows that there is something seriously rotten in the NY Times. Attempts to assign values to people’s lives only through skin color are unethical, immoral and completely backward. ”
Another person noted, “Just a little look at government-administered healthcare right here.”
The New York Times acknowledged that governments, along with state and local health officials, will ultimately decide who gets the coronavirus vaccine first and are not required to follow CDC guidelines.