[POLL] Vaccine Ethics - WWYD?

[Something Fishy]

If you are eligible to be in the first wave, but are young and healthy, would you take the vaccine considering that theoretically you may be depriving someone at higher risk from getting that dose?

There are so many angles to this... What if you qualify due to being a medical worker around high-risk individuals vs being one of the 17 zillion categories of "front line workers"? What if you already had Covid? Does the fact that so many doses are just sitting around mean that you taking it doesn't really mean that somebody who really needs it won't get it? But then in the worst-case scenario, a preventable death may occur at the tail end of this butterfly effect...

This is not about the overall debate regarding the order of distribution and eligibility, bureaucratic incompetence, and all that. I'm curious what people think - and plan on doing - based on the current facts on the ground.

[Something Fishy]

Any other poll options I should add?

[AsherO]

Any other poll options I should add?

I would vote: I’ll take it as soon as they tell me it’s my turn.

[TimT]

would you take the vaccine considering that theoretically you may be depriving someone at higher risk from getting that dose?

Is this the case ? Or does that person need to wait regardless till their group is eligible ?

[zh cohen]

I would vote: I’ll take it as soon as they tell me it’s my turn.

What if it's not as clear as that? I was given the opportunity to take the vaccine as an active member of an EMS organization, but I rarely respond to calls. I decided to wait.

[Something Fishy]

I would vote: I’ll take it as soon as they tell me it’s my turn.

That would be option 1 then

[Something Fishy]

Is this the case ? Or does that person need to wait regardless till their group is eligible ?

If I'm healthy and eligible today, and someone else is say 65 and only eligible next week, that person is clearly somewhat higher risk than I am. Do I wait until next week when he had a chance to get it?

[TimT]

If I'm healthy and eligible today, and someone else is say 65 and only eligible next week, that person is clearly somewhat higher risk than I am. Do I wait until next week when he had a chance to get it?

Is there a shortage in your city that somebody else would be deprived the following week ?

[yelped]

In the US, I think there is a bigger issue with vaccines not being distributed fast enough, not a shortage of vaccines. I don't see how someone taking one now precludes someone next week from not getting one.

[Yehuda57]

In the US, I think there is a bigger issue with vaccines not being distributed fast enough, not a shortage of vaccines. I don't see how someone taking one now precludes someone next week from not getting one.

I voted 1 because of this. So while I'm not actively looking to get the vaccine (I'm young, not a medical worker, etc), if it were offered to me I'd take it as I don't believe that would prevent anyone else more in need from getting it.

[avromie7]

In the US, I think there is a bigger issue with vaccines not being distributed fast enough, not a shortage of vaccines. I don't see how someone taking one now precludes someone next week from not getting one.

I don't think this is very accurate. There are some delays in getting started, as well as some reporting delays. The reported number of vaccines administered went from 2.67. to 3.13m since yesterday, it's clearly ramping up. In NJ they missed some deadline to be able to start vaccinating nursing home residents, setting them back a week. That's the holdup for much of the initial distribution.

I don't think there will be much left of the initial distribution in 2 weeks from now and there will be people who need it who would otherwise have gotten the vaccine from the initial distribution.

[AsherO]

That would be option 1 then

“Irrespective of the circumstances” isn’t in line with what I wrote, but I voted option 1