We were thinking of putting together a thread of dancing frontline medical workers the other day because we kept seeing so many on our Twitter feed. Sure, you could argue that they’re under a ton of pressure and just letting off a little steam by doing these dance routines. Or maybe they just tick you off.
Reminder: how the pandemic was overwhelming our frontline warriors over Xmas… pic.twitter.com/uY40PYJM6I
This crap pisses me off. They can sing and dance. Meanwhile, I had to wait almost 8 hours in my car in the cold while my husband had surgery, because you can’t wait inside OMG Covid! https://t.co/BBmJqNRvPe
Essential workers illustrate the Heart of the Hutch
While buildings remain more than half empty, hundreds of people keep science going and campus running amid pandemic Isma Lubega stands in front of his car in Kampala, Uganda. Lubega is the driver for the UCI-Fred Hutch Collaboration, a program born out of a longstanding relationship between Fred Hutch’s Global Oncology program and the Uganda Cancer Institute. Photo courtesy of Raquel Sanchez / Fred Hutch Global Oncology
Heart of the Hutch: Essential Worker edition
We have been profiling people who illustrate the culture and spirit of Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center with the Heart of the Hutch series. This edition focuses on the essential workers.
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“Equity.” That’s the top word for the vaccine now. The New York Times has pitched it (more than once) and the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) has embraced it. States are putting it into their plans. And the people who advocate it are lying about the underlying meaning.
Every US state has been advised to consider ethnic minorities as a critical and vulnerable group in their vaccine distribution plans, according to Centers for Disease Control guidance.
As a result, half of the nation’s states have outlined plans that now prioritize black, Hispanic and indigenous residents over white people in some way, as the vaccine rollout begins.
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Our government’s most fundamental ethical assumption of 2020 is that Black Lives Matter more than All Lives Matter, as seen in this CDC presentation on vaccine priorities:
The CDC’s advisory group’s thinking is that 21 million healthcare personnel should go first of all.
First, that’s 42 million doses, which will take into the New Year to deliver. And that’s the smallest of the four groups the CDC is thinking about prioritizing. A general criticism is that the CDC’s approach is way too ham-handed to provide much guidance during the critical early weeks of vaccine distribution during the current Third Wave. We have a tool to do something right now, but the feds aren’t thinking about how to get the most bang for the currently limited buck, they are instead thinking: Assume we have 300 million doses.