Influential representatives of Hollywood use their influence and connections, and also offer bribes to doctors in order to be among the first and without a queue to receive a vaccine against coronavirus. Reported by Variety.
According to the publication, due to the poor organization of vaccinations and the small number of doses, celebrities and rich people are actively trying to find an opportunity to get vaccinated bypassing the usual procedures. According to Dr. Robert Huizenga, a former Los Angeles Raiders team physician and Dr. X, individuals are offering more than $ 10,000 to get the vaccine.
“We were offered bribes. (…) There were cases when people tried to temporarily be among the medical workers or employees in a nursing home in order to get the right to priority vaccinations,” the doctor explained. He added that there were many representatives of the entertainment industry among those trying to hurry up. At the same time, Huisenga believes that it is wrong to blame them for this behavior, since the government has not created convenient conditions for receiving vaccinations.
At the same time, Dr. Art Caplan, director of the department of medical ethics at New York University School of Medicine, believes that such behavior should not be tolerated. The vaccine also awaits the elderly and healthcare workers, he said, while the wealthy have far more opportunities to isolate themselves and wait until more doses are available.
Earlier it was reported that US President Joe Biden was going to buy hundreds of millions of doses of vaccines against coronavirus from Pfizer and Moderna.
On the evening of January 26, the number of detected cases of coronavirus infection in the world reached 100 million. Most cases of COVID-19 were recorded in the United States – over 25.3 million.