STEVE GOLDSTEIN: Hundreds of thousands of Arizonans have received either one or both vaccinations for COVID-19, but there are concerns about whether communities of color, the elderly and lower-income residents have been left out disproportionately so far. That has introduced the question of ethics and the current vaccination process. To learn more, I m joined by David Beyda, chair and professor in the (University of Arizona) Department of Bioethics and Medical Humanism. Professor Beyda, how does the structure of vaccinating and who s been vaccinated so far play into your perspectives on the ethics related to all of this?
DAVID BEYDA: So the way I look at this, if I may, is I look at the vaccine program as a three-legged stool, and each one of those legs carries the weight of the stool. So if you take one leg and you make that the vaccine doses and you take the second leg and you make that the distribution and the third leg the prioritization of the vaccines we can look at what s h