Fauci: COVID vaccine rollout needs to prioritize people of color

Axios ^ | 13 mins ago 1/27/21 | Shawna Chen

[conservative98]

Infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci highlighted the need to address racial disparities in the COVID-19 vaccination process, per an interview with The New England Journal of Medicine on Wednesday.

What he’s saying: "I think that's the one thing we really got to be careful of. We don't want in the beginning ... most of the people who are getting it are otherwise, well, middle-class white people."

"You really want to get it to the people who are really the most vulnerable ... you don't want to have a situation where people who really are in need of it, because of where they are, where they live, what their economic status is, that they don’t have access to the vaccine."

• "You absolutely have to respect the hesitancy of the minority population. They keep coming back and saying the history of Tuskegee," Biden's chief medical officer said, referring to a situation in the 1930s in which the federal government denied Black men in Alabama treatment for syphilis and secretly documented how the disease destroyed their bodies over decades.

• "They don't, can't and should not forget about it, because it happened and it was shameful."

• Biden's chief medical adviser noted that health officials must convince people of color "that the safeguards that have been put in place since then ... would make it essentially impossible for a Tuskegee situation to arise again."

[conservative98]

[E. Pluribus Unum]

They have honed racism to a fine art.

[Secret Agent Man]

Everyone who is getting the vaccine

You are all the long term phase 3 guinea pigs.

Just be aware.

[Joe 6-pack]

Maybe they should just get a respected, high profile minority member to publicly take the vaccine. Somebody with the stature of say, Hank Aaron...

[RummyChick]

Sure...go ahead and experiment on them again.

[shortstop]

Is it just me, or has this idiot taken a position on both sides of every single issue involving Covid-19.

[patriot torch]

I read the title and for a minute I thought it was quoting Margret Sanger. Same goal different authors.

[Army Air Corps]

Biden’s version of the Tuskegee Experiments.

[Tennessee Nana]

Why ???

[a fool in paradise]

>>”You absolutely have to respect the hesitancy of the minority population. “

So some anti-vaxer conspiracy threads WILL be tolerated by the censors at Facebook, youtube, and twitter?

If “you” are a person of color and voted for Donald Trump do you lose your “pass” to be hesitant?

[Alas Babylon!]

We don't want in the beginning ... most of the people who are getting it are otherwise, well, middle-class white people."

Not that it matters to the Left, but aren't the first people getting the vaccines medical and first responders?

If they happen to be mostly white and middle class, is that now a fault?

"Sorry doctor, we thank you for working so hard among all these COVID patients, but you are just too white and middle class to get the vaccine early."

[Mermaid Girl]

Saw this on CNN at the gym (I go to LA Fitness, they have all news channels 24/7. So annoying.) I felt very chilled watching Anderson Cooper yammer about how people of color (blacks and latinos combined) were not getting the vaccine at the rate whites ere. Population control in an injection is what I’m thinking, but who knows. I’ve given up even trying at this point.
Just keeping my head down and getting by, day by day.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Yep.

[MinorityRepublican]

That is only going to make Blacks even more skeptical. Even though 90% of them voted for Biden. But a lot of them will not take the vaccine.

[wardamneagle]

Screw the original plan .... Fauci just added what we call “creeping scope”.

[FreeReign]

Fauci: COVID vaccine rollout needs to prioritize people of color

I've got an older, Fauci-loving Democrat family member who is having a hard time finding a place to get a vaccine.

Tonight, she is absolutely livid at Fauci, Biden and all of this politically correct BS.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

All over the map!

[petitfour]

Democrats ...

[deks]

I heard that the elderly, most at risk, are not getting the vaccine (think it was Larry O’Connor radio show, a great conservative voice)

[Tennessee Nana]

Let’s

White folk have to go out and line up for hours to get the vaccine

black folks have it delivered free to their homes like pizza...

OKAAAAAY