What you fail to consider that in a nation that has a long history of health inequity caused by White Supremacy and the denial of access to healthcare and medicine, the priority must be to care for those who live here and have suffered that damage. @GYamey @DataDrivenMD
Within the rollout of vaccines to kids, equity is a vital consideration, but the idea that this rollout should start when the highest-risk people who are not fortunate enough to live in HICs don't yet have access to vaccines at all is, I think, potentially a bigger issue
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Except that's not how it really works in high income nations. Again, systemic bigotry ensures that in many cases, the marginalized in those nations have, in practice, as much difficulty in accessing jabs as majority populations in low income nations.
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We are already seeing this in the U.S. and in the U.K. If you are the wrong race or ethnicity, living in the wrong zip code or state, your access to vaccines is considerably lower than the privileged populations.
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