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Chasing Life

Jumping the Vaccine Line

Chasing Life

CNN

Nutrition, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.58K Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2021

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

If you’re not eligible for the vaccine yet, should you still try to get the shot early anyway? CNN Chief Medical Correspondent Sanjay Gupta speaks with Arthur Caplan, Director of Bioethics at NYU’s Grossman School of Medicine, about when line jumping is defensible and other ethical decisions around vaccine distribution in the U.S.  To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Authorities in the Canadian Territory of Yukon, alleged Rodney Baker, a former gaming executive

0:07.5

and his wife, a catcherina from Vancouver, chartered a plane to a tiny community shortly

0:13.2

after arriving in the Yukon.

0:15.3

And allegedly, posing as local workers received a vaccine they weren't entitled to.

0:22.4

Some people may not be honest about their age or their occupation and some have gotten

0:26.7

the shot before it's really their turn.

0:29.0

Just a question many Americans are grappling with, I'm not eligible for the vaccine yet.

0:33.4

Can I hunt for a surplus dose?

0:36.0

It's tricky.

0:37.5

The vaccine rollout is making admirable advances across the country, but it hasn't been

0:42.6

without some missteps along the way.

0:45.2

And with the shots still in such high demand, some well-connected people have found loop

0:50.6

holes to get shots sooner than they're supposed to.

0:53.8

Others, having grown frustrated or anxious, have resorted to some creative and sometimes

0:59.5

dishonest ways to get their vaccine shots as well.

1:03.3

Oh, there are people who lie about their medical condition, there are people who bribe their

1:08.6

doctor to get a phony certificate that they've got something.

1:11.9

Those are plenty of bad behavior.

1:14.1

Cheating, lying, sneaking around.

1:17.8

That's Art Kaplan.

1:19.3

He's a director of bioethics at New York University's Grossman School of Medicine.

1:24.0

He's an advisor to the National Institutes of Health on Organ Transplantation and he's

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