Two young women in Florida ‘dressed up as grannies’ to get vaccinated, health official says; The Washington Post, February 18, 2021

  

Meryl Kornfield, The Washington Post; Two young women in Florida ‘dressed up as grannies’ to get vaccinated, health official says

"The coronavirus vaccine is so coveted that two women in Florida went to extremes Wednesday to get inoculated: They dressed as if they were elderly, health officials said.

The women, both younger than 45, “dressed up as grannies,” wearing bonnets, gloves and glasses to disguise themselves as older than 65, the age cutoff to be prioritized to get the coronavirus vaccine in Florida, according to Raul Pino, the director of the health department in Orange County, where Orlando is located. He attributed the deception to growing interest in the vaccine, giving the example of the women while explaining how high demand is in the area...

Meanwhile, an Indiana health department issued a warning earlier this month against what it called “a substantial lack of morality” after people had lied to vaccination site workers about their addresses, jobs and ages."

The Ethical Dilemmas Prompted By The Vaccine Rollout; FiveThirtyEight, February 5, 2021

 Anna Rothschild and Sinduja Srinivasan, FiveThirtyEight; The Ethical Dilemmas Prompted By The Vaccine Rollout

"Should you take a leftover dose of the COVID-19 vaccine? Should you pass up a dose if you think you don’t need it as much as someone else does? On this week’s episode of PODCAST-19, we talk to bioethicists to get their answers on these questions and more."

Wealthy couple chartered a plane to the Yukon, took vaccines doses meant for Indigenous elders, authorities said; The Washington Post, January 26, 2021

 

Antonia Noori Farzan

, The Washington Post; Wealthy couple chartered a plane to the Yukon, took vaccines doses meant for Indigenous elders, authorities said

"“I can’t believe I’ve ever seen or heard of such a despicable, disgusting sense of entitlement and lack of a moral compass,” Mike Farnworth, the British Columbia solicitor general, said Monday, according to the Vancouver Sun.

Canadian media outlets have identified the couple as casino executive Rodney Baker, 55, and his wife, Ekaterina Baker, a 32-year-old actress whose recent credits include the 2020 films “Fatman” and “Chick Fight.” Each faces fines totaling the equivalent of about $900 for violating quarantine guidelines."