The COVID-19 vaccine was launched this week and there is now a debate over which groups should be prioritized on the coronavirus vaccine waiting list. The New York Times attempted to answer the question about COVID-19’s list of priorities in an article entitled “The Elderly Against Essential Workers: Who Should Get the Coronavirus Vaccine First?”
The article featured health experts, economists and epidemiologists to publicize who should come to the forefront of the COVID-19 vaccine. To the shock of many readers, experts considered race when deciding who received the priority to receive the potentially life-saving vaccine.
Dr. Peter Szilagyi, a committee member and professor of pediatrics at the University of California, Los Angeles, said: “The issue of ethics is very important, very important to this country and clearly favors the group of essential workers. due to the high proportion of minority workers, low income and low education among essential workers “.
Harald Schmidt, an expert in ethics and health policy at the University of Pennsylvania, told the New York Times, “It’s reasonable to put essential workers ahead of older adults, considering their risks, and that they are disproportionately minor.”
“Larger populations are whiter,” Schmidt told the newspaper. “Society is structured in a way that allows them to live longer. Instead of providing additional health benefits to those who already had more, we can start to level the playing field a bit.”
Schmidt proclaimed that priority should be given to workers essential for the vaccine over the elderly, although people aged 75 to 84 are more likely to die from coronavirus 220 times more than younger adults. and anyone over the age of 85 has 630 times more chances, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Marc Lipsitch, an infectious disease epidemiologist at Harvard’s TH Chan School of Public Health, also hinted that a person’s race should determine who should or should not have priority on the coronavirus waiting list. Lipsitch said teachers should not be considered essential workers, “if a central goal of the committee is to reduce health inequalities.”
“Teachers have middle-class salaries, are often white, and have college degrees,” Lipsitch told the Times.
Elise Gould, a senior economist at the Institute for Economic Policy, said teachers should be given priority because it would allow people to return to work with reliable childcare in schools.
“And if you generally think of people who have jobs where they can’t telecommute, they’re disproportionately black and brown,” Gould said. “They will have more than one challenge when caring for children is a problem.”
Twitter User Jason Compson was one of the first people to point out the racial aspects related to the distribution of the coronavirus vaccine found in the New York Times article.
Later, another doctor, named Marc Lipsitch, explains that teachers should not be considered essential … https://t.co/DzFuytsOtH
– Jason Compson (@Jason Compson)1608271747.0
To summarize, in this single @JanHoffmanNYT article, three experts – Schdmit, Lipsitch and Gould– say that more … https://t.co/Flz0Bh1rg6
– Jason Compson (@Jason Compson)1608272107.0
BlazeTV personality Dave Rubin broke the article, “Just The NY Times quoting a doctor who wants to kill big white people for political purposes. (What was the obvious next step in the garbage the NY Times has been pushing for years).” Ethics expert “no It doesn’t mean what I used to do.”
BlazeTV Allie Beth Stuckey of the “Relatable” podcast, he noted, “This is so incredibly bad. Please wake up Christians, continue on as Critical Race Theory is just a right-wing bogeyman who poses no real threat. Tell me again on how Christian nationalism is our greatest threat. ”
New York Post columnist Miranda Devine he wrote, “Truly disgusting. Eugenia approved. Older people are more at risk and should be first in line for a vaccine. The color of her skin is immaterial. What has happened to the medical profession? “
One commentator he replied, “This thread shows that there is something seriously rotten in the NY Times. Attempts to assign values to people’s lives solely by skin color are unethical, immoral, and completely backward.”
Another person pointed out“Here you can only take a look at government-administered health care.”
The New York Times admitted that governors, along with state and local health officials, will finally decide who will get the coronavirus vaccine first and will not be forced to follow CDC guidelines.