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Will the rich get to cut the line for the vaccine?

Recode Daily

Recode

Society & Culture, Science, Technology

4.61.3K Ratings

🗓️ 7 January 2021

⏱️ 9 minutes

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The covid vaccines are rolling out across the world slowly, and you might be asking yourself when you’ll be able to get vaccinated. So are the tech elite in Silicon Valley, but their answers may be different than yours. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

In December 2020, a Latino couple was falsely accused by a white momfluencer of attempting to kidnap her children.

0:07.0

The Karen phenomenon where white women falsely accuse people of color of crimes usually fixates on the

0:13.5

accuser the so-called Karen. But for this series we focus on the

0:17.2

innocent couple at the heart of this story. I just want the public to know

0:21.9

what she did was wrong.

0:24.0

In Perfect Paradise People versus Karen.

0:26.3

Available now wherever you get your podcasts. The COVID vaccines are rolling out across the world slowly and you may be asking yourself,

0:40.1

when it's my turn and who gets to decide?

0:43.0

So are the tech elite in Silicon Valley,

0:45.2

but their answer is maybe different than yours.

0:47.8

Rico's Teddy Schleifer is here to explain.

0:49.6

Hey, Teddy.

0:50.1

Hey, uh, happy new year.

0:52.0

What do we know so far about the rollout of the vaccine in

0:54.2

California in particular? Who's scheduled to have access to it first? So California, like

1:00.0

other states, is prioritizing essential workers early on. They're prioritizing

1:04.8

health care workers and they're prioritizing the elderly people who are the

1:08.6

highest risk of contracting, spreading, and potentially dying from the vaccine.

1:14.4

But you're right, there's this possibility

1:17.0

that the system won't work as neatly as that,

1:20.2

and that people with money could find a way to cut ahead in line and that has a lot of people

1:25.2

concerned not just in California and Silicon Valley but everywhere.

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