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Who Gets the Covid-19 Vaccine First? Here’s One Idea – The New York Times
A weighted lottery gives everyone a chance at a drug or vaccine in short supply. But some have a better shot than others.
To allocate the drug, Pittsburg doctors decided that the lottery would give preference to health care workers and emergency medical workers. The doctors also weighted the odds to favor people from economically disadvantaged areas, who tend to be mostly Black and Hispanic.
People with other illnesses and limited life spans, like end-stage cancer patients, had the odds weighted against them, giving them a smaller chance to win in the lottery. The system did not consider age, race, ethnicity, qual…
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