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[quote=Anonymous]There's a lot of misunderstanding of public health, and the digital divide, in this thread.

First of all, public health is not about individuals. It is about the community. Decades of best practice suggest that using zip codes as a proxy for risk leads to better population-level outcomes than elaborate systems that would assign each individual person some sort of risk level.

Experts have modeled out each of these scenarios, and it is better *for the community* to get the higher risk groups vaccinated first, and we know that certain zip codes have large number of people with significant overlapping risks: dense housing, public-facing jobs, and poor underlying health.

So, yes, at the individual level it might make more sense to vaccinate the 65 year old federal worker in Ward 3 ahead of the 70 year old stay at home grandma in Ward 8, but at the population level, the data modeling shows that focusing on the higher risk areas will save more lives.

Okay, onto the digital divide. It's sort of a misnomer, because it's really a digital + time + access divide. Access to internet is only one factor. The other factors are access to information about how to get an appointment, and time/resources to be online at 6 am waiting for that slot to open.

In general, Ward 3 folks have more digital access, but also more time and resources and access to information. [/quote]

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