Ontario just announced punitive new lockdowns on fears of ICU overcrowding. It also announced that first vaccine tranche would have ~90,000, all of which would be allocated to health care workers.
2/ in Toronto, there are ~100,000 people (3.7%) between 80 and 90. They make up 25% of hospitalized. There are sections of city in which COVID is ten times more prevalent than others. Why not vaccinate most likely to be hospitalized in most vulnerable neighborhoods? 
3/ I certainly believe that young health care workers deserve very high priority, but lockdown is blunt policy that damages young non-public sector workers. Quickest way of constraining potential ICU crisis is vaccinating 80-90s in high-risk areas, NOT 25-40 year old HC workers.
4/ even 90,000 vaccines would go a long way towards keeping 80+ out of COVID hospitalizations. Seems a valid alternative.
5/ COVID active cases varies from 0.2 to 5.7 per 1,000 people. High-intensity neighborhoods (activity greater than 4) are ~5% of city pop'n. 80-plus are 5% of that. So that's 7500 people in city of 3 million - all very high risk candidates for hospitalization and ICU.
6/ instead, public sector allocates vaccine to young health care workers, whose contributions are meritorious, but, in the supposed crisis, they should wait 6 more weeks so that most vulnerable get protected.
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