'Hunger Games-style chaos': Trump WH staffers 'shamelessly' tried to get on the vaccine short list

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David Badash, The New Civil Rights Movement
March 15, 2021

After they or their bosses spent nearly a year flouting public health and safety guidelines, like mask-wearing at work, and going as far as dismissing CDC warnings about the coronavirus pandemic, many Trump White House staffers and aides at every level worked "shamelessly" to get on the list of special recipients for the COVID-19 vaccine.

White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows was partly responsible for determining who at the White House would get the coronavirus vaccine earlier than most Americans. It makes sense that some in the White House should be inoculated as soon as possible. Those running the government, like the President and Vice President, and those in the line of succession, like the Secretary of State, should be vaccinated to ensure continuity of government. So should those performing "national essential functions."

But according to a Vanity Fair report Monday, in "the waning days of the Trump administration, with nearly 2,500 Americans dying of COVID-19 every day, what had been envisioned as a triumphant vaccine rollout soon devolved into Hunger Games–style chaos."

Who should get the limited-supply of shots?

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