After complaints by right-wing media personalities, Utah is eliminating race and sex as factors in allocating its limited supply of monoclonal antibodies and antiviral treatments for COVID-19.
A new treatment center for monoclonal antibodies is shown to media on Thursday, Sept. 23, 2021 in Murray. The Utah Department of Health, which operates the facility, will no longer use race and sex as a factor in determining who gets limited treatment for COVID-19.After complaints by right-wing media personalities, Utah is eliminating race and sex as
The move comes less than two weeks after Fox News talk show host Tucker Carlson falsely claimed that health officials in Utah and other states were giving priority to people of color in order to “punish” white people. Carlson, though, did not object to allocation rules that gave priority to men. But at the same time, the updated data actually appear to show an even stronger link between the risk of serious illness and race.
UDOH did not identify those locations. It also did not specify the law under which the previous eligibility calculator “raises legal concerns.” Some of those factors — pregnancy and certain immunocompromising conditions — will continue to be considered. But UDOH did not release the new scoring criteria or respond to The Tribune’s requests for it, so it’s unclear how much weight those carry.
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