How can anyone even argue it? Vaccinating health-care workers first is INSANE as policy. It only makes sense as theater - in two ways. First, it (theoretically) creates momentum for mass adult vaccinations - look, those smart health-care workers did it, now we’ll do it... https://twitter.com/osheartdoc/status/1342647659526574081

Second, because the people most at risk from #Covid (80 and over in assisted living facilities) die so frequently in any case, a lot of them will die shortly after being vaccinated even if the vaccine doesn’t do them any harm (and it may). This obviously will look bad...

As all the outlets that have screamed endlessly about #Covid death counts will have to explain these people were sick to begin with, the vaccine didn’t really kill them, etc (we already see some of this). Which in turn will raise uncomfortable questions about our #Covid counts...

And finally vaccinating the “right” (old/sick) people first is kind of lose-lose for vaccine- and policymakers. It may bring death counts down fast - so fast the epidemic will seem defanged very quickly and the pressure for mass vaccinations and other measures will fade....

But if it doesn’t - or more accurately doesn’t seem to (because of the way PCR testing and death certificate matching now are pulling so many deaths to be called #Covid) - people may wonder why the great risk reductionnumbers in the trials didn’t make any difference to deaths...

So yeah, better to take our time with those over-75s and let the epidemic take its course. After all, everyone wins if we all get vaccinated - especially Moderna executives!