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“The stakes are extremely high,” says Renaldo Hudson, who was recently released from the Illinois department of corrections after 37 years of incarceration. “Most states do not have death sentences. But being incarcerated can be a death sentence if you die inside. They’re putting people in body bags.” On most days of the pandemic, the largest Covid-19 outbreaks in this country have been in prisons and jails. In December, the National Commission on Covid-19 and Criminal Justice found that the Covid-19 mortality rate in prisons was twice as high as for the general population, with fou...

Panel is set to recommend new guidelines for vaccine rollout this weekend Members have signaled they will prioritize essential workers over the elderly   UPenn professor Harald Schmidt explained, 'older populations are whiter'  Remarks drew backlash, but Schmidt denied favoring 'race-only prioritization'  He also argues that older people can more easily isolate than essential workers CDC director favors vaccinating those over 70 living with younger people   Ultimately, each state will decide how it rolls out the vaccine to residents 

FILE - In this Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2020, file photo, a droplet falls from a syringe after a health care worker was injected with the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at a hospital in Providence, R.I. The U.S. COVID-19 vaccination campaign has begun, and the few available doses are mostly going into the arms of health care workers and nursing home residents. But what about in January, February and March, when more shots are expected to become available? Who should get those doses? (AP Photo/David Goldman, File) Photo: Associated Press By MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Deciding t...

'Older people are whiter': Ivy League prof's logic in vaccine rollout Keith Griffith For Dailymail.com and Associated Press © Provided by Daily Mail MailOnline logo The debate over who should receive COVID-19 vaccines next has intensified following suggestions that the elderly should be de-prioritized because they are more likely to be white. 'Older populations are whiter,' explained Harald Schmidt, an expert in ethics and health policy at the University of Pennsylvania, in an interview with the New York Times. 'Society is structured in a way that enables them to live long...

NEW YORK (AP) — Deciding that health care workers and nursing home residents should be first in line for the initial, limited supplies of COVID-19 shots wasn't that hard a call. Now U.S. health officials have to determine who should be next. How high a priority, for example, should senior citizens, teachers, transit workers and supermarket employees get in the next few months as more vaccine becomes available? A federal panel of vaccination experts takes up that question at an emergency meeting this weekend. Its guidance is not binding, and no matter what it decides, there will be differenc...