“There are a lot of cuts in line” to get the coronavirus vaccine in the first weeks of nationwide distribution, Fox News medical collaborator Dr. Marty Makary told America’s News HQ on Friday.
“Ironically, after all the talk about Black Lives Matter, here we are with people coming in – people with access, people with wealth, people with connections to local facilities, and they are basically saying that their lives are more important and I think totally inappropriate, ”said Makary, who accused the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for being“ too slow ”to clarify who should have priority access to the vaccine.
“It should go to the most at risk individuals after going to nursing homes and frontline health professionals, not all health professionals,” he said. “I promised not to get the vaccine, along with many health professionals, until every high-risk American had the opportunity to get it first.”
However, according to Makary, the CDC’s recommendation that “health professionals” be given priority access to the vaccine meant that plastic surgeons, hospital board members and spouses of health professionals received the injection “inappropriately.”
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The Fox News medical contributor also questioned some states’ decision to “retain 50% of the vaccine supply so people could be sure of receiving a second dose.”
“That was a mistake, in my opinion,” he said. “The strategy should have been made available to as many people as possible.”
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Makary noted that almost 5% of the UK population has already been vaccinated, while not even 1% of the US population has been dosed.