You are ignoring that there's a push-pull between "death prevention" and "spread prevention" in the vaccine roll out and that vaccinating younger people will do more to mitigate spread than vaccinating older people.
Preexisting conditions may simply shift the balance
Preexisting conditions may simply shift the balance
https://twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/1340362664455892994
In other words: vaccinating the elderly? Mitigates deaths way more than spread.
The healthy young? Mitigates spread way more than deaths
Younger people with preexisting conditions? Mitigates death (more than healthy young, less than elderly) AND spread (vice versa)
The healthy young? Mitigates spread way more than deaths
Younger people with preexisting conditions? Mitigates death (more than healthy young, less than elderly) AND spread (vice versa)
But yes, @NateSilver538, you've reviewed the data from the research, therefore you have the skills to understand how that data should translate into prioritization decisions in a vaccine roll out
By the way, that doesn't mean that there's anything wrong with asking questions. You could have said "hey, the data seems to show a much higher risk for the elderly. What's the thought process here?"
Instead, you went with I'm a lay person who's done a lot of reading it, I know better how to allocate a scarce medical resource than these doctors do
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