The Jewish Ethics of Vaccine Triage

It seems pretty clear that there won’t be enough COVID-19 vaccine for everyone for a long time. At the moment, health care personnel and residents of long-term care facilities have priority. In the next phase, the CDC recommends the vaccine for people over 75 and frontline workers in "essential and critical industries." After that, people aged 65-74, people 16-64 with high-risk medical conditions, and "essential workers not recommended for vaccination in Phase 1b" can join the party. And then comes the so-called "general population" - although it's still unclear how or when children and pregnant women will be included.