Article content We are seeing a new symptom in the pandemic — generalized vaccine envy. Ottawa Public Health, guided by the province, has chosen the first number of neighbourhoods where select groups of residents are eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine in March — months ahead of the general population. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, or Egan: Location, location and my neighbour's vaccine envy Back to video It is, relatively, a small demographic portion: those born before or in 1941 (80 or older this year) or any adult who receives “chronic” home care. To define a neighbourhood, of course, one must put borders around it, meaning 80-year-old-plus residents on one side of, say, Alta Vista Drive, are eligible for the vaccine now but their pals across the street are not. (This is, in fact, exactly the case for a portion of the street.)