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Originally Posted by nfotiu
I'm getting tired of all the controversy about who gets the vaccine first. Like everything with this pandemic, the macro is so much more important than the micro. Whatever the fastest way to get it into the most people's arms, do that. Sure, prioritize health care workers, and the vulnerable, but not at the expense of getting it out quickly.
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Originally Posted by nfotiu
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. |
Yep, just like the stimulus cheques. Don't slow things down just get them out there right away so people don't lose their homes and miss bills, am I right?
