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Johns Hopkins Plan to Vaccinate Ethnic Minorities, Mentally Challenged, First

Using racial justice for their reasoning, officials at Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security are proposing to give the first COVID-19 vaccines to ethnic minorities and mentally challenged persons.

The plan will be implemented under the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) guidance, which focuses on selection populations in the U.S. Health officials say the move will help to mend disparities among minorities and those with special health needs as the nation fights COVID.

However, according to the Children’s Health Defense, “the main focus of this allocation strategy is to deliver vaccines first to racial minorities but in such a way as to make those minorities feel ‘at ease’ and not like ‘guinea pigs’ when receiving an experimental vaccine that those documents admit is likely to cause ‘certain adverse effects … more frequently in certain population subgroups.’ Research has shown that those “subgroups” most at risk for adverse effects are these same minorities.”

 

SOURCE: The Defender December 1, 2020