Essential Workers or Elderly? Larry Brilliant on the Vaccine Debate

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🗓️ 18 December 2020

⏱️ 54 minutes

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As the first rounds of the Covid-19 vaccines become available, a growing debate has emerged as to who should get it first. CDC guidance prioritizes essential workers and those in long-term care, but a growing chorus of voices say authorities should instead focus on the elderly. It’s a profound debate with broad ethical implications that dig into the question of preserving first-responders and society’s first line of defense versus rising morbidity and mortality rates among at-risk populations. Host and moderator John Donvan examines it all in a wide ranging interview with Dr. Larry Brilliant, physician, epidemiologist, and CEO of the Pandefense Advisory, who was also a part of the World Health Organization team that eradicated smallpox. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:36.6	COVID morbidity and mortality.
0:39.6	That 95% efficacy number is just staggering.
0:44.6	So the rescue is underway.
0:47.0	We have vaccines for the coronavirus.
0:49.6	They've been approved.
0:50.6	They're being manufactured.
0:51.6	They're being shipped.
0:52.6	They're being administered first to those deemed most in need of them.
0:56.2	And what's that we hear surrounding this breakthrough news?
1:00.1	Arguments.
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1:07.0	And like the whole battle overwearing face masks and like the fights over the lockdowns
1:11.5	and the social distancing, we now find ourselves sparring over the vaccines.
1:16.7	Who should get them first?
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