Vaccine Shortage Sparks Fights Over Who Should Get First Shots
Vaccine Shortage Sparks Fights Over Who Should Get First Shots © thomas kienzle/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images As a shortage of Covid-19 shots slows vaccination efforts in the West, groups that haven't been given high priority are increasingly jostling for the right to get immunized first. In most countries that are currently deploying vaccines, those most at risk of dying or getting seriously ill from the virus—nursing home residents and those caring for them, medical workers and the elderly—have been at the front of the queue. For months, few questioned the wisdom of a strategy foc...