Table 2 Ranking and rationale for groups to receive antiviral drugs and vaccine in a severe pandemic
From: Including the public in pandemic planning: a deliberative approach
Rank-Sector | Rationale | Typical Supporting Quotation |
|---|---|---|
1st - Health care workers | Essential to provision of medical services for PI and non-PI patients | "[They] need to administer the medicine to people, and also, obviously, see to any other illnesses and sicknesses that are going on together at the same time." |
2nd - Vaccine and antiviral drug production workers | Ensuring the timely supply of developed vaccines and drugs | "If we don't have any of those guys around and they get sick, no vaccine gets developed; we are in big trouble." |
Equal 3rd -Essential services | Maintenance of fabric of society | "The essential services have to keep the society running. When there is no electricity, water etc the whole system will collapse" |
Equal 3rd - Military | Multi-skilled and experienced in disaster management | ". . . transportation of fuel, et cetera, and any other things that might come along like that mobile hospitals and that sort of stuff." |