Prioritizing Worse-off Populations in Allocating Covid-19 Vaccines

As researchers around the world race to develop a vaccine against Covid-19, how should we decide which groups receive the vaccine before others? Harald Schmidt (University of Pennsylvania), Parag Pathak (MIT), Tayfun Sönmez (Boston College), and M. Utku Ünver (Boston College) examine the existing frameworks and argue that prioritizing worse-off groups is urgent, justified, and feasible. bmj.com