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Is the CDC Using Science or Social Justice Ideology for Vaccine Prioritization?
Is the CDC Using Science or Social Justice Ideology for Vaccine Prioritization? (townhall.com)
18 Dec 2020 ~~ By Katie Pavlich
he Center’s for Disease Control, the federal government entity responsible for evaluating the most efficient way to combat Wuhan coronavirus, could be making future vaccine recipient and prioritization determinations on “diversity” instead of age.
According to the CDC and listed in the science section of the presentation, the elderly are the most at risk of death due to Wuhan coronavirus. The CDC also confirms "older adults in congregate settings are disproportionately affected by COVID-19."
An independent committee of medical experts that advises the C.D.C. on immunization practices will soon vote on whom to recommend for the second phase of vaccination — “Phase 1b.” In a meeting last month, all voting members of the committee indicated support for putting essential workers ahead of people 65 and older and those with high-risk health conditions.
Historically, the committee relied on scientific evidence to inform its decisions. But now the members are weighing social justice concerns as well, noted Lisa A. Prosser, a professor of health policy and decision sciences at the University of Michigan.
“To me the issue of ethics is very significant, very important for this country,” Dr. Peter Szilagyi, a committee member and a pediatrics professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, said at the time, “and clearly favors the essential worker group because of the high proportion of minority, low-income and low-education workers among essential workers.”
That position runs counter to frameworks proposed by the World Health Organization, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, and many countries, which say that reducing deaths should be the unequivocal priority and that older and sicker people should thus go before the workers, a view shared by many in public health and medicine.
The CDC is using dangerous social justice ideology to make public health decisions, driven by radical university professors. Comment:
Why aren't we surprised that Progressive Marxist/DSA Democrat Leftists are truly in fact the "non-science" party - or rather - that "science" is always "Trumped" by "social justice".
It appears that the CDC is inundated with young white, SJW trained physicians who have been indoctrinated for deacdes in and by Marxists to hate themselves and America. Now they are at the helm and instead of following the Hippocratic Oath of "First Do No Harm" ('Primum non nocere') they are just following their marching orders.
The question is, when are we as a nation going push back against this kind of racism? Applying a simple concept of justice should rule that All Lives Are Equal. It is bad enough to factor in one's residual productivity in making healthcare decisions, let alone depriving whites based on their presumed past white privilege. Some may call this sophistication, but I call it pure lunacy.
