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Guest opinion: Dear Gov. Newsom: Don't ignore the disabled in distributing vaccine

Original post made on Feb 7, 2021

In a guest opinion, Mountain View resident Jennifer Panighetti pens a letter to Gov. Gavin Newsom in response to the decision to implement an age-based COVID vaccine distribution plan moving forward.

Read the full story here Web Link posted Saturday, February 6, 2021, 9:30 AM

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Posted by Betsy Roble
a resident of Menlo Park: other
on Feb 12, 2021 at 3:17 pm

Betsy Roble is a registered user.

The criteria for early vaccination has certainly been a moving target: front-line healthcare workers, first-responders, nursing home residents, essential workers, and now an age based criteria of those 65+. Add to that teachers, grocery store workers, an equity component, and you want to add those with disabilities.

Every group can and does make their own argument and justification for getting a vaccine sooner rather than later to which I generally accept their points.

But if everyone is first, who is second or God forbid, last?


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