Why countries should take heed of U.K.’s vaccine-triage approach

The U.K. took brave and potentially momentous decision in announcing that the scheduled second shot of the vaccine would be postponed to 12 weeks after the first for everybody who hadn’t already had it—effectively, for almost everybody in the country.

U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson's government vaccination campaign may be no better than Donald Trump’s pathetic 'warp speed' immunization program in the United States, which promised 20 million inoculations by the end of December and managed about four million.Photograph courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

Opinion

BY GWYNNE DYER

January 11, 2021

LONDON, U.K.—Triage is always crude and messy, and there are always mistakes, but the goal is to save as many lives as possible in an emergency where there are not enough medical resources to save everybody. That certainly applies to the pandemic, and there is certa...

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