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Are you covid vaccinated? || Would you support a policy where hospitals prioritize admitting vaccinated patients over unvaccinated patients, even when there's not enough space/they have to turn away the unvaccinated? Assume this doesn't affect non-covid illnesses.

yes | yes
37.7%
yes | no
51.6%
no | yes
1.7%
no | no
9%

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5:05 AM · Feb 5, 2022

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My understanding is that a large reason for getting the vaccine is that it reduces the effects of the virus. Therefore it seems to me only moral that the unvaccinated get treatment. They would in theory need it most.

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It’s fair for vaccination status to be considered in hospital triage as long as it is factored in equally with all other risk factors, i.e. weighted by data, not weighted higher due to moral policing.

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yeah // yeah if they could somehow do it in a way that didnt have weird second-order effects like "wasting a bunch of time with bureaucracy" or "reinforcing people's sense of moral superiority" or ?? things i cant anticipate also p sure there's an obvious reason this is bad

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I chose yes/yes because I do think vax status is a relevant factor in the decision, giving priority by who's odds of live vs die are most improved by treatment. But this calc could go either way if unvaxxed are more likely to fall into this category.

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When all else is equal they should prioritize unvaccinated since they are more vulnerable.

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Is this much different to prioritising by age, health conditions etc..? That’s already happened in earlier waves, I don’t see why vaccine status couldn’t be a factor now too, though you’d probably need a more deadly variant to start spreading for this to be an issue in reality.

@HahTse

Feb 5, 2022

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@Aella_Girl

I voted yes/yes, with the caveat that it only applies to people who could have gotten vaccinated but chose not to. In Germany, the ICUs are full of unvaccinated COVID patients, to the point where people are dying because necessary operations are being delayed and(...)