[drapery]

While there is no international organization and means to distribute the vaccine to the most needy, in the US, we have troves of census data that can pinpoint neighborhoods that are the most at risk - based on age, access to health care, and income.

With a government that actually cares about its people, the HHS can set up pilot sites to vaccinate in those most needy areas. Moreover, the US military has experience in setting up field hospitals for these purposes in Liberia against Ebola. So bottomline is that it is a matter of political will on how we distribute the COVID drugs.

[bleah1000]

This sounds like a good idea on paper, but allow me to frame this differently. The first vaccine will likely be slightly experimental because it was done rather quickly. This means you are effectively asking the government to set up shop in likely minority and poorer neighborhoods to administer a vaccine that might have unknown side-effects that don't appear until being used by a larger population of people. It seems like you are supporting experimenting on the poor.

I think you need to make it available, but in this case, maybe allowing people to choose is the right decision. Make sure it's available equally, yes, make sure poorer people have access, but don't rush to make sure that only the poor get it.

[drapery]

I agree. My point is that in general that when there is a high demand for very scarce resources, it is usually the rich or powerful who gets it. All I am saying is that don't forget about the poor people.