Extraordinary demand coupled with limited supply has forced Tennessee health officials to prioritize unvaccinated patients, raising some ethical questions over who should or shouldn’t get the treatment.
are likely to be the ones who landed in the emergency room because they did not get vaccinated.
Extraordinary demand coupled with the federal government’s need to cap shipments of these scarce drugs has forced Tennessee health officials to recommend limiting the treatment to unvaccinated patients with the worst cases ofBut doing so raises ethical questions, public health experts said, about who should get this treatment and who shouldn’t.
“For example, if a patient who had a heart transplant had received the vaccine but is still at risk of severe Covid-19 infection was denied access to antibody treatment that could have reduced the severity of their infection, how is this fair?” asked Dr. Sadiya Khan, an epidemiologist at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.Dr. Lisa Piercey, Tennessee’s top health official, agreed that the state’s “logical” decision is not likely to be popular..
Under the Tennessee recommendations, vaccinated people who are immunocompromised will also be eligible for the treatment, Piercey said.
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