Oncologist Dr. Zeke Emanuel, one of 10 advisory board members named to Democratic President-elect Joe Biden's coronavirus task force, has pushed the U.S. and other countries to not hoard a coronavirus vaccine. BIDEN UNVEILS TRANSITION COVID-29 ADVISORY BOARDThe model allows the country that produces the vaccine to hold onto enough of a supply to reach a threshold for herd immunity ("Rt below 1"). Beyond that, the model supports distributing the vaccine internationally, which means giving away or selling doses of the vaccine before it's available to every citizen in that country, Emanuel explained to Scientific American. "Associative ties only justify a government's giving some priority to its own citizens, not absolute priority," Emanuel wrote with his co-authors. Rather than saving more young people, we are stretching out old age," Emanuel wrote.

Source: Fox News November 10, 2020 23:03 UTC