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Vaccinations Are Going Pretty Well If You’re White
The chaotic U.S. vaccine campaign is headed for an inequitable and corrupt result.
Who’s first?
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For all its successes, the U.S. Covid-19 vaccination campaign has a troubling mix of characteristics: chaotic organization that requires significant time and effort to navigate; a wealthy elite desperate to get shots; a vast group of front-line workers who are supposed to receive the first doses, but who lack resources and have been hardest hit economically.
In other words, it has all the elements required for an inequitable and even corrupt result. And that appears to be precisely where it’s headed.