“ … the task force developed four pieces of criteria to inform who’ll get access to a vaccine first.
They are as follows:
Risk of acquiring infection: people who have a greater risk of being in an environment where COVID-19 spreads
Risk of severe morbidity and mortality: people who have a higher risk of experiencing severe complications or death from the disease
Risk of negative societal impact: people whom society depends on for essential tasks
Risk of transmitting disease: people who have a greater chance of spreading the disease to others.”
That last one would cover young generally healthy people who are not taking any precautions and are going about their business as if the virus does not exist. Make sense of that.
Pfizer chose not to take U.S. taxpayer money to help fund its coronavirus vaccine development, a move that CBS News’ Margaret Brennan pointed out on Sunday is a bit of a financial risk for the pharmaceutical giant.
CEO Albert Bourla admitted that it will indeed “be painful” if the vaccine fails, but “at the end of the day it’s only money” and the lack of taxpayer funds won’t “break our company.”