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Person receiving a vaccine injection in their upper arm by a healthcare worker.

Person receiving a vaccine injection in their upper arm by a healthcare worker.

If you are Offered a COVID Shot, Take it

Charles Binkley, MD, director of bioethics quoted in CW Nevius's Newsletter.

Binkley says the unsayable.

“You’re always going to have bad players who are going to try to game the system, jump in line,” he said. “We learned that in kindergarten.”

And then he added, as I made raise-the-roof gestures, “So to create a system to keep them out strikes me as wasting a lot of resources and energy.”

Charles Binkley, MD, director of bioethics quoted in CW Nevius's Newsletter.

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