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A medical professional administers a vaccine injection to a patient.

A medical professional administers a vaccine injection to a patient.

With Vaccine Rolling out, who Deserves to Receive it?

Charles Binkley, MD, director of Bioethics quoted on KTVU Fox 2.

In the U.S., medical staff, first responders, and elderly in care homes are first on the list. In both cases, those are either most at-risk or those who must care for them. 

"All of those people, because of their role, because of their jobs, get preferential standing,"

"Whether they run the largest corporation in the world or they're a resident of a long-term care facility, one's perceived power should have absolutely nothing to play, no role to play in the distribution,"

Charles Binkley, MD, director of Bioethics quoted on KTVU Fox 2.

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