UK Core Issue: How Do We Distribute Covid Vaccines?

 A county-wide vaccine distribution is someone's job. In this entry I am going to detail how I would handle this dilemma if it was my job.

I don't know the demographics of Fayette County as most people don't. However, being a part of a college community, I have made the assumption that a good portion of the population consists of younger individuals. What I don't know is the racial, gender, or economic distribution. This is important to be ignorant to, because my distribution wouldn't be biased toward race, gender, or socioeconomic status.

To distribute the vaccine, I would only factor in age and people with underlying health conditions. People over the age of 50 would receive the vaccine, as well as anybody with diabetes, asthma, any organ conditions, etc. All the people that fall under these criteria are at the highest risk of Covid having a negative health effect on them and will most likely be symptomatic. 

The rest of the third of vaccines will go as follows. It has been seen that you are unlikely to get Covid once you have already gotten it. People who have yet to test positive for the virus and are still being extremely cautious about contracting will be next. It will be first come first serve for the rest of the vaccines, but only for people who meet the criteria.

I feel like this would be the most effective way to distribute a limited amount of vaccines without being biased toward certain classes and helping the people who would greatly benefit from a vaccine.