Unequal and not prioritized: The mistakes of the COVID vaccine rollout, from a medical ethics standpoint
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That is not what happened with COVID vaccines. In this example, allocating vaccines proportionally by population, means Albertville and Barryland receive 125,000 vaccine doses each. That means thatof those in Albertville are.This violates equality, since people in the same priority class are treated differently depending on where they live. Worse, Barryland is left with 25,000 extra doses which are used to vaccinate young, healthy people, while the elderly inhabitants of Albertville risk death.
In our article, we show that there is one rationing method that will always guarantee that priority and equality are fulfilled, no matter what the number and size of the territories and priority classes might be. In the example above, Albertville and Barryland together have half a million elderly people and healthcare workers, and there are only a quarter million vaccines. So only people in those classes will receive vaccines. Albertville has 400,000 of them, and Barryland 100,000, so one-fifth of the vaccines will go to Barryland and the rest to Albertville. Each of the territories will vaccinate half of their highest-priority people.
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