Hospitals’ Hard Vaccine Choices

Doctors, nurses and other health-care workers have been on the frontlines of the coronavirus pandemic for months. They will soon be on the frontlines of the Covid-19 vaccination campaign.

The first vaccines could start shipping in a matter of weeks. Initially, the federal government plans to send 6.4 million doses across the country with the goal of distributing 40 million shots by the end of the year. But cut the number of people who'll be vaccinated with them in half, because each will require two doses. The precious supplies will be reserved for people who are treating coronavirus patients – and they almost certainly will not be enough to cover everybody.