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As vaccines reach more people, some lucky folks feel guilty getting a shot, but should they?
NOLA.com
Mar 2, 2021
Vaccine guilt is a common phenomenon. Dr. Matthew Wynia experienced it himself when he got vaccinated in December. Normally an academic, he happened to be seeing patients and was in the right place at the right time. He got the vaccine before his elderly mother.
“If you could take the vaccine dose and walk across the street and give it to your mother or another elderly person, then I would say you should do that, but you can’t. It’s not the way the distribution system works. It’s not a perfect system; no system would be. It’s not 100% fair. Aiming for perfection could actually slow the system down.” Read article>>