Thread by @michaelmina_lab

I feel frustrated to see me and my peers getting vaccinated ahead of essentially every high risk person on Earth.

We are generally low risk, have access to incredible healthcare, are mostly in upper echelons of wealth.

Incredible inequities.
Our systems are so broken.

When we proposed single dose vaccine trials - peers said it is unethical to give just single dose since we don’t know how it will work, in middle of pandemic

Unethical?? Ethics are global. Giving vaccines to the wealthiest, w access to PPE and least vulnerable first is unethical

(I did not actually sign up for my vaccine. But I could get it any time. Out of principle I will not get vaccinated first in line. It is not right for me to do so)

Argument is that it is about the patients. It is.

But there is an immense global need. We have PPE in wealthy nations that far exceeds what is available elsewhere.

We did not offer testing to healthcare workers w argument that they were fine w PPE. So why 1st for vaccines?

To clarify - I am frustrated about the global distribution of vaccines - not just priority list in the US

Of course, wealthy nations are 1st in line. Willing to justify ourselves getting it - saying we need it for our hospitals. Unwilling to let more vulnerable nations go ahead.

So many comments stating why HCWs should be first. My larger point is a out the global distribution.

We have hospital admin and many others getting vaccinated in US meanwhile ICU nurses abroad, on Covid wards, will go possibly to 2022 without a vaccine.