Health Expert: Withholding Vaccine From Elderly Whites Will ‘Level the Playing Field a Bit’
A University of Pennsylvania expert in health policy says older people should not necessarily be on a priority list for COVID-19 vaccinations because they tend to be white. . .
The expert, Harald Schmidt was quoted in a New York Times article titled “Who should get the coronavirus vaccine first?”
“Older populations are whiter,” he said. “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.”
His argued it was reasonable to put “essential workers” ahead of older populations, at least partly because they are disproportionately minorities.
The Centers for Disease Control, he said, should integrate the agency’s “social vulnerability index” to determine the order in which people get vaccinated. (Read more from “Health Expert: Withholding Vaccine From Elderly Whites Will ‘Level the Playing Field a Bit'” HERE)
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