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Query: Equitable COVID-19 vaccine prioritization: front-line workers or 65-74 year olds? 1BackgroundThe COVID-19 epidemic in the United States has been characterized by two stark disparities. COVID-19 burden has been unequally distributed among racial and ethnic groups and at the same time the mortality rates have been sharply higher among older age groups.

These disparities have led some to suggest that higher equity could be attained by vaccinating front-line workers before vaccinating older individuals, who in the US are disproportionately Non-Hispanic White.

MethodsWe compare the performance of two distribution policies, one allocating vaccines to front-line workers and another to older individuals aged 65-74-year-old. We estimate both the number of lives saved and the number of years of life saved under each of the policies, overall and in every race/ethnicity groups, in the United States and every state.

FindingsWe show that prioritizing COVID-19 vaccines for 65-74-year-olds saves both more lives and more years of life than attributing vaccines front-line workers in each racial/ethnic group, in the United States as a whole and in nearly every state.

InterpretationWhen evaluating equity in vaccine allocation policies, the overall benefit to impact of each population subgroup should be considered, not only the proportion of doses that is distributed to each subgroup. Further work can identify prioritization schemes that perform better on multiple equity metrics.

FundingThe funding sources played no role in this research.
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