How the rich and privileged can skip the line for Covid-19 vaccines - STAT:
Athletes, politicians, and other wealthy or well-connected people have managed to get special treatment
throughout the pandemic, including preferential access to testing and
unapproved therapies. Early access to coronavirus vaccines is likely to
be no different, medical experts and ethicists told STAT. It could
happen in any number of ways, they said: fudging the definition of
“essential workers” or “high-risk” conditions, lobbying by influential
industries, physicians caving to pressure to keep their patients happy,
and even through outright bribery or theft.
The worst attempts to nefariously procure a vaccine may come a few
months into distribution, once vaccines are available that don’t require
ultra-cold storage and local pharmacies and physician practices get
allotments.