Kent Sepkowitz is a CNN medical analyst and a physician and infection control expert at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York. He calls this the "smart" approach, which he laid out in a recent opinion piece . This focus on the high-risk group is absolutely a great idea for problems like smoking, asthma, obesity and diabetes. But Covid-19 is a highly contagious disease. Indeed, it is likely that the best use of the Covid-19 vaccine will be to give it first to the young, whose immune systems will respond extremely well.

Source: CNN September 05, 2020 20:03 UTC