id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-318983-rmvqf6s9 SCHMIDT, HARALD Vaccine Rationing and the Urgency of Social Justice in the Covid‐19 Response 2020-05-28 .txt text/plain 2883 143 56 In addition, when supplies are "insufficient for patients in the highest risk categories-those over 60 years of age or with coexisting conditions-then equality supports using random selection, such as a lottery, for vaccine allocation." 13 Younger people, whom the overall framework otherwise generally favors (as they stand to gain more life years, and societal investments such as education would otherwise be wasted) should be prioritized only if "epidemiologic modeling shows that this would be the best way to reduce viral spread and the risk to others." 14 Using a lottery for allocating scare vaccines in the general population, as proposed here, is one way of treating people equally, and it is certainly superior to a first-come-firstserved approach (or, perhaps more accurately, a let-me-usemy-connections-and-pointy-middle-class-elbows approach) that likely explains why better-off and whiter groups typically get tested more frequently for Covid-19 than lowerincome people and people of color, as noted above. ./cache/cord-318983-rmvqf6s9.txt ./txt/cord-318983-rmvqf6s9.txt