Stop the dying before worrying about COVID vaccine order
The first batches of COVID-19 vaccine, which arrived last week to much fanfare, have been appropriately reserved for front-line healthcare workers and nursing home staff and residents. That was an easy call. Healthy nurses, doctors and other healthcare workers are crucially important to keeping hospitals functioning amid the surge of seriously sick COVID-19 patients. Residents of nursing homes are in acute danger, accounting for 40% of the more than the 312,000 COVID-19 deaths in the U.S. But who’s next? It will be weeks, even months, until there are enough doses of COVID-19 vaccine availab...
Source: latimes.com