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Originally Posted by John41
I just quoted one person on the committee but the entire committee recommendation to the CDC is going to be to put white seniors farther back in the vaccination line based on social justice as they interpret it. Minorities in low paying jobs will skip ahead of us even though on average they recover instead of dying as many seniors do. If you are 80 or older your chance of getting covid19 and dying from it is 8 %. If you are black your chance is 0.1 %.
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That may be true. Your statements seem to say that the vaccines should be directed to those groups that are in MOST danger of dying from CV. That is logical. And I would agree IF NOT for the fact that the CV is raging now today. By raging - I mean 250,000 new cases in one day, yesterday. Because the US has SUCH a high emergency, I would humbly suggest that it might be better to concentrate on putting out the disease as if it were a SPREADING FIRE. Put out that FIRE first (control the spread) and then work out the vaccine delivery based on groups likely to die the most. The plus age 65 group is more likely to be hunkered down at home and not rolling around society and SPREADING CV ( some are at the TV Land squares), most should NOT be. Your front-line workers, police, teachers, and firefighters can NOT work from home or hunker down. Therefore, they should get the vaccine before the plus-age 65 citizens - in order to dampen the SPREAD.