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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]On Nate Silver:  https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/22193679/who-should-get-covid-19-vaccine-first-debate-explained[/quote]

Thanks for posting this.  The article doesn't mention that there was a really twisted racial aspect to the original recommendation for the second wave of vaccine.  The committee making recommendations to the CDC recommended not to vaccinate elderly folks before frontline workers. The reason given was that the cohort of older folks, who are at highest risk of death from Covid--like 90 times more likely to die, are disproportionately white and in the name of racial equity these older folks should not be prioritized. Because of skin color. Nate Silver and others pointed out that the committees own data showed more people overall would die this way, and Douthat pointed out how crazy and discriminatory this was....https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/19/opinion/sunday/coronavirus-science.html (See "working document" linked in the Douthat article--verbiage in red lettering in charts near the end was used to justify recommending that essential workers be vaccinated before the elderly, even though it meant more total deaths.)

And this is why we shouldn't worship experts. Because they can be working outside their wheelhouse, and they can be wrong, ethically/morally confused, and advocate racist policies. Pretty shocking stuff. Kudos to the journalists for calling these experts out, and to the CDC for ignoring the bad advice when making the priority recommendations. [/quote]

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