Who Should Get the First Doses?

Prognosis: Misconception

Bloomberg

Health & Fitness, Science

4.1 • 838 Ratings

🗓️ 9 December 2020

⏱️ 15 minutes

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The U.K. began administering the first Covid-19 vaccine this week, and the U.S. may do the same within days. But, the emergence of these vaccines brings tough choices around who gets it first and how it will be distributed. Bloomberg senior editor Jason Gale spoke with an ethics expert about the thinking behind some of these decisions and how the current vaccines could affect how we develop future ones.

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0:33.7	Welcome to Prognosis. I'm Laura Carlson. It's day 270 since coronavirus was declared a global pandemic.
0:43.4	Today's main story, new vaccines are well on their way to being distributed broadly in countries around the world.
0:52.6	But how we get the shots to billions of people and when isn't just a logistical problem.
1:00.6	It's an ethics question, too.
1:03.6	But first, here's what happened in virus news today.
1:16.8	Thank you. virus news today. Canada's public health authorities have approved the Pfizer and Bio-Entec coronavirus vaccine.
1:23.6	The approval paves the way for Justin Trudeau to begin a government campaign to vaccinate Canadians against COVID-19,
1:31.3	which has killed more than 12,800 people in the country so far.
1:36.3	Canada has secured more doses of the vaccine per person than any other country in the world.
1:53.8	The prime minister said last month that a majority of the population of Canada should be able to get their shots by September 2021.
2:02.7	Some more news emerged about how well the Pfizer and BioN Tech vaccine works. According to the U.S.
2:09.6	Food and Drug Administration, it prevents symptomatic cases of the virus, but it's not clear if the shot keeps the disease from being transmitted. The FDA published their findings in a report
2:15.9	issued Tuesday.
2:21.5	The risk that immunized people could still transmit the virus carries important implications for continued mask wearing and social distancing,
2:28.3	even among those who have been vaccinated.
2:34.1	Finally, new tests show the coronavirus was circulated who have been vaccinated.
2:41.8	Finally, new tests show the coronavirus was circulating in Italy as early as the end of November 2019.
2:43.6	That's according to a report published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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