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Date posted:   Nov 01, 2020

COVID-19 Vaccine Allocation

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A committee that advises the C.D.C.’s director is working on a plan to equitably distribute immunizations when they become available. A paper on this subject "What prioritizing worse-off minority groups for COVID-19 vaccines means quantitatively: practical, legal and ethical implications," co-authored by Lawrence O. Gostin, Georgetown University, Parag A. Pathak, MIT, Harald Schmidt, University of Pennsylvania, Tayfun Sönmez, Boston College, M. Utku Ünver, Boston College and Michelle A. Williams, Harvard University, was featured in the NYTimes.