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Originally Posted by New Era
I agree, get it out there as quickly as possible, but the reality is you do have triage this because we have finite resources available and you have to maximize the effectiveness of those resources. You want to make sure you protect the front line and most critical people first. If those people are on the front lines fighting the virus and getting exposed, you want to give them every protection possible to prevent the spread. If people can shelter in place and be responsible about their behaviors, hold off on them and vaccinate them last as they are a low risk group. Bottom line, use the vaccine the best way to prevent the spread which means they do have to manage it appropriately.
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I don't really disagree, but if the triage is slowing things down significantly to some kind of brute force distribution, then it's not really worth it.
The Washington Post had an interesting article about putting people who've had it at the back of the line.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opini...-vaccine-line/
It seems taboo to assume that people who've had are immune, but it seems there is enough evidence that people who've had it have some significant level of immunity. The fastest way to control the spread is to combine the natural immune people with the vaccinated immune people. Also a lot of the prioritized people are the groups to most likely have had it already.
On the other hand, trying to factor in who has had it, slows things down more. The 7 day averages have been on a pretty steep decline for 2 weeks now in the US, so hopefully there is some combination of vaccinated and natural immunity that is significantly slowing the spread anyway.