Who Will Get the Coronavirus Vaccine First?

Clinicians caring for elderly relatives may gain only a small individual health benefit, but their vaccination may prevent COVID-19 in the people they look after and allow them to return to their office without worrying so much about passing the virus to their elderly loved ones.

• What criteria should be used to decide how to allocate the initially limited doses of the vaccine?
• How are health benefits to staff vs. societal health benefits weighed?
• Could the patient’s perspective inform the extent to which a vaccination strategy prioritizes health benefits versus wider benefits? How?
• Who should decide whether private sale of a vaccine should be banned and whether it could be distributed via lotteries among those with equal need?

Apply Theory (Specific Professional Healthcare Competencies + Clinical Medical Ethical Principles) to Practice in order to provide Optimal Patient-Centered Care (OPCC)