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by michaelt 1999 days ago
Given the gigantic cost of lockdowns to the economy - billions a day - the government has likely already thrown an lot of money at vaccine production and distribution. If more money could be usefully spent, it would have been.

Therefore, if an 80-year-old is 300x more likely to die than 37-year-old Martin Shkreli, moving a dose from the former and to the latter is inefficient.