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The Elderly vs. Essential Workers: Who Should Get the Coronavirus Vaccine First?
New York Times ^

Posted on 12/18/2020 10:12:03 AM PST by MNDude

Harald Schmidt, an expert in ethics and health policy at the University of Pennsylvania, said that it is reasonable to put essential workers ahead of older adults, given their risks, and that they are disproportionately minorities. “Older populations are whiter, ” Dr. Schmidt 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.”

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: faintingnurse; news
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1 posted on 12/18/2020 10:12:03 AM PST by MNDude
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Essential workers. They care for several folks so we’re protecting multiples with one shot.


2 posted on 12/18/2020 10:13:35 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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Kill the old folks meme rises again.


3 posted on 12/18/2020 10:13:37 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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Why is it these experts in ethics never have any?


4 posted on 12/18/2020 10:14:13 AM PST by MNDude
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Aren’t we ranking people?

I thought that was discriminatory?


5 posted on 12/18/2020 10:15:09 AM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer”)
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To: Sacajaweau

The fainting nurse may have saved millions with her one shot.


6 posted on 12/18/2020 10:16:23 AM PST by MNDude
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Old folks are consuming vast sums of SS and medicare, they have lived useful, long lives. They should stop burning through public cash so we can import younger, fertile, more vibrant public cash consumers.


7 posted on 12/18/2020 10:16:40 AM PST by Sgt_Schultze (When your business model depends on slave labor, you're always going to need more slaves)
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Harald Schmidt can have 10 Ph.Ds piled higher and deeper, and he’s still a libtard fool. Race, race, race, race is all we hear about and the reason given for everything. Excuses are made as to why blacks have less access to healthcare, but I am not fooled. I saw first hand how they deprived THEMSELVES of education which would lead to higher level employment instead of welfare or menial jobs and thus would provide better healthcare benefits, Dr. SCHMIDT. And they could not be bothered to hunker down and study, preferring to attend parties, carouse all night and indulge in drugs instead of studying for that test they were having the next day. And predictably, when they failed the test, it was because it was “racist”—had nothing to do with them never cracking a book or cutting class, no. So don’t give me this libtard crap about blacks being deprived of good healthcare. It isn’t anyone’s fault but their own.


8 posted on 12/18/2020 10:18:57 AM PST by EinNYC
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9 posted on 12/18/2020 10:21:58 AM PST by Bratch
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Nancy Pelosi


10 posted on 12/18/2020 10:25:23 AM PST by cnsmom
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Any elderly who have not yet succumbed to the virus will be culled by the vaccine.


11 posted on 12/18/2020 10:30:12 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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Any elderly who have not yet succumbed to the virus will be culled by the vaccine.


12 posted on 12/18/2020 10:30:13 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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Every elected official should be given it first. Then all medical personal, from doctors to care givers at homes. Then Hollywood would be my next choice.


13 posted on 12/18/2020 10:34:07 AM PST by Cottonpatch
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Politicians 1st, bureaucrats 2nd and celebrities 3rd.

Everyone else will act as the control group while we observe the complications in the first 3 groups.


14 posted on 12/18/2020 10:45:36 AM PST by yuleeyahoo (The nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master and deserves one. Hamilton)
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“Essential workers” are younger and healthier, less likely to die from the virus. Age is also less subjective than “essential” when determining who gets it... not as likely a criteria to be manipulated to play favorites.


15 posted on 12/18/2020 10:51:31 AM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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“The fainting nurse may have saved millions with her one shot.”

Sick logic


16 posted on 12/18/2020 10:53:58 AM PST by TexasGator (Z1z)
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I’d start with BOTH, elderly and front line healthcare workers.


17 posted on 12/18/2020 10:54:16 AM PST by 1Old Pro ( )
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I’m an essential worker. I say give it to the elderly and frail first.


18 posted on 12/18/2020 10:54:51 AM PST by Iowa Slim
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The most vulnerable.


19 posted on 12/18/2020 10:55:35 AM PST by skr (May God confound the enemy)
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Socialists and Democrats.


20 posted on 12/18/2020 10:57:14 AM PST by MrBambaLaMamba (It's a lie. It's all lies. Use every opportunity to poison their data)
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