Priority Access to COVID-19 Vaccine and American Healthcare

by Susan L. Smith, PhD On either side of our country’s northern border, outrage is brewing about the rich getting priority access to COVID-19 vaccinations.  An extremely wealthy Vancouver couple is being met with scorn after chartering a plane to the Yukon, breaking quarantine regulations, and lying to take advantage of a vaccination clinic that was meant for an indigenous community already hit hard by the pandemic. The University of Rochester Medical Center in New York had to issue a formal apology for moving board members and donors to the front of the line, noting that many “are disappointed by this information, and rightly so.”…
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