That "I'll do whatever it takes" ethos, Fernandez Lynch said, was epitomized by people like actress Lori Loughlin, who pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud in the nationwide scandal of rich parents trying to buy slots for their kids in big-time universities. We've long demonstrated ourselves to be "self-interested, rugged American capitalist individualists," noted Fernandez Lynch, cheating on taxes, doping out ways to get ahead, and grabbing up all the toilet paper in the grocery store at the first hint of trouble.
And who's to stop hospitals, such as the one in Augusta, Maine, where officials dangled injections to big-time donors? States such as New York are threatening the licenses of physicians who participate in these schemes. So, it's no surprise, for example, that moneyed folks have offered tens of thousands of dollars to their doctors for a syringe dripping with life-sustaining liquid manufactured by Moderna or Pfizer, according to Fernandez Lynch.
That means a lot of Americans are coveting a vaccination they may not see for a while. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show. And, of the 202 million designated as "priority," fewer than 30 million actually have been vaccinated so far, data from the U.S. That adds up to 202 million people, leaving an additional 131 million out of the count.
Right now, according to AARP, the top three vaccine-priority groups are health-care personnel and long-term care facility residents (numbering 24 million people) frontline essential workers, as well as those ages 75 and older (49 million) and Americans who are ages 65 to 74, or ages 16 to 64 with high-risk conditions, as well as other essential workers (129 million).
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