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    Health professionals and first responders should receive ... — Carmelics
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    Health professionals and first responders should receive high priority for scarce epidemic vaccines on grounds of contribution and reciprocity.

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    • 1.First responders put themselves at increased risk of acquiring infection by working on behalf of others.
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    • 2.Those who bear special risks for the benefit of others are entitled to special consideration in access to preventive interventions.
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    • 3.The principle of reciprocity supports compensating those who sacrifice for the common good.
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    • 1.Utilitarian triage ethics (Bentham, Mill) holds that scarce medical resources should maximize aggregate lives saved, not reward past service.
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    • 2.Healthcare workers' higher viral exposure means vaccination yields greater marginal benefit anyway, making reciprocity arguments redundant—utility alone suffices.
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    • 3.Grounding priority in occupational contribution rather than expected benefit risks entrenching social hierarchies that systematically disadvantage already-marginalized populations.
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    • 1.Norman Daniels' 'fair innings' and Rawlsian frameworks hold that just allocation must prioritize the worst-off, not those with institutional power or social recognition.
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    • 2.Reciprocity arguments presuppose voluntariness, but many frontline workers (e.g., underpaid care aides) bear epidemic risk under economic compulsion, not genuine sacrifice.
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    As we have already noted, financial resources are always limited in public health. There is never enough money in the public health sector to pursue all the policies and practices that could advance population health. Although arguably a redistribution of resources among competing public sectors, for example from a country’s defense budget to its health budget, may be ethically warranted and could relieve some of the more pressing constraints, tough priority setting and allocation decisions are
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