The crying assed shame is that I will likely have the vaccine in my arm months before a charge nurse in rural Iowa who is in the room with covid patients.
Why? Are certain states getting priority?
Not that I'm aware of.
But it certainly worked that way in the past with other mass vaccination programs....they weren't pandemics but if the distribution model holds, the larger the city, the more the cases, the greater chance you have to get a shot. The sad thing is that in Phoenix, if a healthcare worker succumbs to Covid and cannot work, there are 18 other world-class hospitals in the area. If the same healthcare worker can't do her job in Humbolt or Winslow....the magnitude of losing a direct care giver who treats twenty patients is much greater. The rural healthcare workers should be prioritized in this environment. When it comes to general population...the inverse is true. But when you have a class/tier system... there should be an emphasis placed on outcomes if the care isn't given.
At least thats my view. People smarter than me (hard to believe I know) get paid a lot of money to model these scenarios. But I think common sense would tell most of us that if you have 10 level one trauma centers in a metropolitan area and none for 200 miles in some areas, the importance of that rural level one center is magnified.