Doctors suggest CDC should deprioritize elderly for coronavirus vaccine: They're 'whiter' and we should 'level the playing field'
by Andrew Mark Miller, Social Media Producer |
| December 18, 2020 05:05 PM
An article in the New York Times quoted several doctors suggesting that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention should deprioritize distributing the coronavirus vaccine to the elderly because they are “whiter.â€
"Older populations are whiter,†Dr. Harald Schmidt, a health and policy expert at the University of Pennsylvania, 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."
The article, titled “The Elderly vs. Essential Workers: Who Should Get the Coronavirus Vaccine First?â€, contained multiple examples of doctors appearing to suggest that race should be a factor in the vaccine rollout, which the CDC has been accused of supporting.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/doctors-suggest-cdc-deprioritize-elderly-coronavirus-vaccine-level-playing-field
