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."

[zeestephen]

America's elderly population is about 90% white.

That is because massive legal and illegal immigration did not start until the 1980s.

[eyedigress]

Modern Day Margaret.

[metmom]

Let’s see.

It’s racist to deny minorities the vaccine or not give them priority.

But minorities are reticent to get the vaccine because of past history of them being experimented on. So they are suspicious of being given priority claiming racism by experimenting on them.

It’s a lose/lose situation. Whatever is decided is sure to be wrong.

[Jan_Sobieski]

Hank Aaron thinks otherwise...

[Verginius Rufus]

Never forget how Fauci fawned over Hillary. He's thinking in terms of what is best for the Democratic Party. One of the Democratic Party's long term goals is to reduce the proportion of whites in the population. Fauci probably thinks having more whites die of the coronavirus will help in that regard.

If people die because of getting the vaccine (there have been over 100 cases--still a small percentage of those getting the vaccine), then it is different from the Tuskegee scandal. There they denied needed medical treatment to black men who had acquired syphilis on their own. This would be injecting something harmful into people's bodies.

[joshua c]

Yeah, let me know when they are done testing then I will consider it.

[Irenic]

That’s good with me. Have at it, people of color.

[Truthoverpower]

They tried to make Hank an example fir black folks to take it

Bad example He’s dead 💀

[SuperLuminal]

"...vaccine rollout needs to prioritize people of color"

Yeah! Sure!

12-15 percent of the population are far more important than the other 85-88 percent... (Assuming that most hispanics are actually caucasions...)

[Secret Agent Man]

i wont be takong it, regardless

i already have plenty of immune meds and supplements, and a healthy immune system

plus ivermectin if required

[adorno]

Fauci: COVID vaccine rollout needs to prioritize people of color

Sounds like the Margaret Sanger of today.

[Sicon]

So, among its many unique and unprecedented characteristics, COVID is also racist?

[puppypusher]

As a white male,I’ll allow these minority’s the opportunity to use my share of the vaccine. I’m not taking it.

[Revel]

This could not be any more racists. These people are delusional in thinking they are on some moral high ground. They are just plain horrible people who have done so much damage to humanity.

[BiteYourSelf]

This.🤔

[sanjuanbob]

What color is Obama?

[windsorknot]

Fauci is just another woke Democrat pander bear.

[ldish]

RACISTS!

[ldish]

Hey dude I’ve never listen to the limp handed SOB...

[steve8714]

Why? Make it scientsy.