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Naive question: given that there is a sort of pareto distribution in covid vulnerability, and that the vaccine rollout prioritizes vaccinating the most vulnerab

Naive question: given that there is a sort of pareto distribution in covid vulnerability, and that the vaccine rollout prioritizes vaccinating the most vulnerable first, doesn't it also make some sense to prioritize stronger vaccinations (2 doses of Pfizer or Moderna) for the early recipients of the vaccine? Increasing the speed of the rollout with delayed second doses or skipping second doses sounds compelling for other reasons, but it does seem like a more complex calculus to me than many articles online want to admit.

simonh 6y ago
By delaying the second dose, more of the most vulnerable cohorts can be vaccinated more quickly. By the time you get to vaccinating significantly less vulnerable cohorts with their first dose, you will also be second dosing the most vulnerable cohorts. So it's not really a case of denying the most vulnerable a second dose in order to give significantly less vulnerable people a first dose.