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Re:CDC Reports 51% Increase in Suicide Attempts Among Teenag... by btilly on Saturday June 26, 2021 @01:48PM (#27644114)
It is worth noting that your facts are basically right. Studies like https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6... say that men die more than women do, and therefore targeting men first would have saved lives.

Of course failing to target men more heavily was not as egregious as making it available to essential workers at the same time as older people to create more racial equity in who got the vaccine. Even though the CDC figures said that targeting older people first would have saved more lives, and even more minority lives. See https://reason.com/2020/12/18/vaccine-cdc-essential-workers-... for more on that topic.

And, of course, a lot of people simply showed up, said they delivered for DoorDash, and got the vaccine. Knowing that nobody would check up on them.

There is an element of sometimes ugly politics to this. :-(

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Re:CDC Reports 51% Increase in Suicide Attempts Among Teenag... by aplummer on Saturday June 26, 2021 @03:31PM (#27645029)
Even in the abstract it says that hypothesis based on risk factors (which are accounted for in distribution) are the underlying cause of this distinction.

As well, this is analysis after the fact, and not at the time of the decision making - totally different.

So parent is emphatically wrong.

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Re:CDC Reports 51% Increase in Suicide Attempts Among Teenag... by btilly on Saturday June 26, 2021 @06:51PM (#27646742)
The article that I pointed to predated the vaccines by a number of months. So it is not analysis after the fact. The Reason article that I pointed to is at the same time as the CDC policy, and pointed out that other countries were adopting a different policy at the same time. Again not analysis after the fact.

The grandparent comment is more strongly stated than I would agree with. But not wrong.

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