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by erentz 2002 days ago
Be warned Yascha has become (or always was, I'm not sure) a grifter hack. He jumped on the cancel culture grift now he's joining in with other armchair epidemiologists such as Matty Yglesias and Nate Silver in misreading slides and propagating a made up controversy about vaccine distribution. The ACIP meeting was recorded and open to journalists. They could go review it, but strangely they didn't. I don't see them reporting video from the meeting where they say anything of the sort your're suggesting.

EDIT: This whole thing is nothing but semi-sophisticated click bait and this is objectively untrue:

> "When the CDC is willing to kill thousands of people in the name of social justice, it's hard to know whom or what to trust.

> So I wrote about its shocking failure of judgment, and my crisis of faith in America’s institutions, for @JoinPersuasion." -- Yascha Mounk, Dec 23, 2020 [1]

Others here have already explained this and shown the priority list from CDC.

[1] https://twitter.com/yascha_mounk/status/1341866668528717824