因為你有錢有權有勢，請問你要注射疫苗嗎？_風聞

根據美媒《華盛頓郵報》的報道：佛羅里達州一家護理中心向有錢有權有勢的人提供疫苗接種

“他問我是否要注射疫苗，”現年89歲的雷納·格林鮑姆（Ryna Greenbaum）回憶起上週收到的電話消息。 “我是捐助者之一。”

她説，這個電話是來自MorseLife Health System首席執行官Keith Myers的，該公司是佛羅里達州西棕櫚灘的一家高端療養院和輔助生活設施，向董事會成員和主要捐助者發出。

MorseLife通過聯邦計劃為長期護理機構的居民和員工提供了稀有的冠狀病毒疫苗，不僅為其居民提供，而且向董事會成員以及向該機構慷慨捐贈的人（包括西棕櫚灘鄉村俱樂部成員）提供，據獲得訪問權的多個人稱，鄉村俱樂部，其中一些人接受了。無法得知確切的邀請數，也不知道有多少個非捐助者。

MorseLife插曲突出顯示了美國針對冠狀病毒進行免疫接種的拼湊方法-由州和地方當局以及個人提供者決定接種資格-正在為設施提供機會向關係户提供疫苗接種，而成千上萬的人正在等待線上。在佛羅里達州，一些老年居民通宵排隊，希望能接種。

代表西棕櫚灘包括MorseLife地區的州眾議員Omari Hardy（D）表示，該設施似乎“正在銷售這種疫苗”。他説，接受者可能屬於符合免疫接種年齡的人羣並不重要，因為他們利用了“我們其他人無法利用的”過程，其中包括他的一位年長選民“她不認識許多有權勢的人，她的錢不多，她在問我如何獲得接種。”

“而且我不知道該告訴她什麼，”哈迪説。 “因此，如果MorseLife將這種疫苗贈送給關係密切的人，則必須對此負責。”

羅伯特·弗羅默（Robert Fromer）是紐約市一家律師事務所的前執行合夥人，該家族基金會自2015年以來已向MorseLife捐款45,000美元，他説他和妻子上週在MorseLife遭到槍擊。

他估計現場約有12名來自Walgreens的疫苗接種者，他稱讚該活動運行良好。他在週一的簡短電話採訪中説：“我從那裏的聽眾那裏聽到的消息是，我們非常感激。”

他説，他和他的妻子都已80歲，“申請”接受免疫接種並被接受，但他拒絕詳細説明這一過程。他堅稱，MorseLife所管理的接種並非嚴格針對長期護理機構的居民，而是針對西棕櫚灘的所有老年居民。但是，棕櫚灘縣的衞生官員表示，普通民眾無法在MorseLife簽約。

現年80歲的Suzanne Levine是三個MorseLife附屬實體的董事會成員，她的邀請以書面形式發出-也是來自Myers。她説，她聽取了捐贈者的抱怨，稱與MorseLife無關的有權勢人士也已經接種了疫苗。

她説：“我聽到有人説，‘我的天哪，從來沒有給MorseLife一角錢的人都被邀請了。”當被問及這些人是如何被邀請時，萊文説：“朋友。

“He asked me if I wanted to have a vaccine,” said Ryna Greenbaum, 89, recounting the phone message she got last week. “I’m one of the people who has given him some money.”

The call, she said, had come from Keith Myers, chief executive of MorseLife Health System, a high-end nursing home and assisted-living facility in West Palm Beach, Fla., to members of the board and major donors.

MorseLife has made scarce coronavirus vaccines — provided through a federal program intended for residents and staff of long-term-care facilities — available not just to its residents but to board members and those who made generous donations to the facility, including members of the Palm Beach Country Club, according to multiple people who were offered access, some of whom accepted it. The precise number of invitations, and how many may have also gone to non-donors, could not be learned.

The MorseLife episode highlights how the country’s patchwork approach to immunization against the coronavirus — leaving decisions about eligibility to state and local authorities as well as to individual providers — is creating opportunities for facilities to provide access to well-connected people while thousands of others wait in line. In Florida, some elderly residents have camped out overnight in hopes of receiving a shot.

State Rep. Omari Hardy (D), who represents the section of West Palm Beach that includes MorseLife, said the facility appeared to be “selling access to this vaccine.” He said it was unimportant that recipients may have fallen within the age group eligible to be immunized because they were taking advantage of a process “unavailable to the rest of us,” including one of his elderly constituents “who doesn’t know many powerful people, who doesn’t have a lot of money, and she’s asking me how she can get access.”

“And I don’t know what to tell her,” Hardy said. “So if MorseLife is giving this vaccine away to the well-connected, they need to be held accountable for that.”

Robert Fromer, the former managing partner of a New York City law firm whose family foundation has donated $45,000 to MorseLife since 2015, said he and his wife received shots at MorseLife last week.

He estimated that about 12 vaccinators from Walgreens were on site, and he praised the event as well-run. “All I heard from the people who were there was that it was remarkably appreciated,” he said in a brief phone interview on Monday.

He said he and his wife, both in their 80s, “applied” to get immunized and were accepted, but he declined to elaborate on the process. He insisted the shots administered by MorseLife were not strictly for the long-term-care facility’s residents, but for any older residents of West Palm Beach. The health official in Palm Beach County, however, said members of the general public were not able to sign up at MorseLife.

Suzanne Levine, 80, a board member of three MorseLife-affiliated entities, said her invitation had come in writing — also from Myers. She had heard complaints from donors that powerful people unaffiliated with MorseLife had received vaccines, she said.

“I heard some people say, ‘My goodness, people who never gave a dime to MorseLife got invited,’” she said. When asked how those people got invited, Levine said: “Friends.”