CADILLAC â It s a simple statistical fact that if you re disadvantaged, you re more likely to catch and spread COVID-19.
So says Harald Schmidt, a professor of medical ethics and health policy at the University of Pennsylvania who has written about the use of disadvantage indexes to allocate vaccine disbursement. Everybody has to understand that it s not about me. It s about all of us as we discuss who gets vaccines first, Schmidt said. All of us gain if we make sure that the people who are most at risk get it before the people who are less at risk within each phase.