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I'm Noah Feldman. I didn't feel a thing. Well done. That's Vice President Mike Pence last Friday, just after

receiving a coronavirus vaccine on national television. President-elect Joe Biden has also been vaccinated.

But what about the rest of us? The distribution of the coronavirus vaccine raises massive, practical, and ethical questions.

Here to walk us through some of them is Michelle Mello.

Professor Mello teaches at the Stanford Law School and holds a joint appointment at Stanford's

School of Medicine.

She's an expert on medical liability, public health law,

pharmaceuticals and vaccines,

and importantly, ethics and governance associated

with all of those things.

Michelle, thank you so much for joining us.

I knew the minute that we hit this stage of the vaccine process,

where we have vaccines that appear to work, and now we have to struggle with the practical

and ethical questions and the legal questions around distribution that I wanted to hear your input.

So let's just dive in. And I want to start with the priorities that different actors have been setting for who gets

vaccines when and ask you, what do you think that those priorities should be?

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