COVID-19: How to Prioritize Worse-off Populations in Allocating Safe and Effective Vaccines

How should we decide which pop­u­la­tion groups receive Covid-19 vac­cines before oth­ers? Harald Schmidt, Parag Pathak, Tayfun Sönmez, and M Utku Ünver exam­ine the exist­ing frame­works and argue that pri­or­i­tiz­ing worse-off groups is urgent, jus­ti­fied, and fea­si­ble.