Leftists Hijacking Vaccination Rollout
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Betsy McCaughey
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Posted: Dec 22, 2020 12:01 AM
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Leftists Hijacking Vaccination Rollout



You were warned about this first in July. Now, it's happening. On Sunday, the federal Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices recommended that seniors ages 65 to 74 be moved toward the back of the line for the COVID-19 vaccine.

The reason, says ACIP, is that "racial and ethnic minority groups (are) under-represented" in this age group. Put another way: Seniors are too white.
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Thousands of seniors will die needlessly if this decision goes into effect. ACIP actually admits as many as 6.5% more elderly will die over the next six months but dismisses that loss of life as "minimal." Not if it's your grandma.

A person 65 or older is at least 90 times more at risk of dying from COVID-19 than a young working-age person. Vaccinating the elderly first is the obvious strategy to save the most lives. ACIP says its twisted priorities are based in "fairness, equity and justice." What the committee really means is "wokeness."

Committee member Peter Szilagyi, from the University of California, Los Angeles, defends ACIP's move, because "essential workers" include "a high proportion of minority, low-income and low-education workers."
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Medicine is no place for social engineering. -- excerpt, rest at link above --

Quote: austingirl wrote in post #2

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The left can have all the vaccine as far as I'm concerned.

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