Try not to be old and white, because if COVID-19 doesn’t kill you, woke public health experts will. Last week, Pfizer’s new coronavirus vaccine rolled out across the United States with 5.1 million doses expected to be administered by Christmas. A second vaccine from Moderna is on its heels adding 5.9 million doses to the tally. But with only 11 million doses immediately available, and each recipient requiring two, who gets jabbed first has become a hot political potato.
Professor Harald Schmidt at the University of Pennsylvania sees a silver haired lining to the limited supply. The expert on ethics tells the New York Times, “Older populations are whi ...