14.04.2021:
Should past mistakes play a role in how medical assistance is prioritised? If so, the debate on the prioritisation of health resources will take on a whole new dimension. If Oslo receives more vaccine doses because of its infection rate, this would be a kind of 'reverse reward' (1). It was the mayor of the town of Molde, Torgeir Dahl, who expressed this view in a discussion on the skewed distribution of COVID-19 vaccines based on where infection rates are highest. The reason was that he was not impressed by what Oslo, the capital of Norway, had achieved. According to Dahl, the infection rate...