因为你有钱有权有势，请问你要注射疫苗吗？_风闻

根据美媒《华盛顿邮报》的报道：佛罗里达州一家护理中心向有钱有权有势的人提供疫苗接种

“他问我是否要注射疫苗，”现年89岁的雷纳·格林鲍姆（Ryna Greenbaum）回忆起上周收到的电话消息。 “我是捐助者之一。”

她说，这个电话是来自MorseLife Health System首席执行官Keith Myers的，该公司是佛罗里达州西棕榈滩的一家高端疗养院和辅助生活设施，向董事会成员和主要捐助者发出。

MorseLife通过联邦计划为长期护理机构的居民和员工提供了稀有的冠状病毒疫苗，不仅为其居民提供，而且向董事会成员以及向该机构慷慨捐赠的人（包括西棕榈滩乡村俱乐部成员）提供，据获得访问权的多个人称，乡村俱乐部，其中一些人接受了。无法得知确切的邀请数，也不知道有多少个非捐助者。

MorseLife插曲突出显示了美国针对冠状病毒进行免疫接种的拼凑方法-由州和地方当局以及个人提供者决定接种资格-正在为设施提供机会向关系户提供疫苗接种，而成千上万的人正在等待线上。在佛罗里达州，一些老年居民通宵排队，希望能接种。

代表西棕榈滩包括MorseLife地区的州众议员Omari Hardy（D）表示，该设施似乎“正在销售这种疫苗”。他说，接受者可能属于符合免疫接种年龄的人群并不重要，因为他们利用了“我们其他人无法利用的”过程，其中包括他的一位年长选民“她不认识许多有权势的人，她的钱不多，她在问我如何获得接种。”

“而且我不知道该告诉她什么，”哈迪说。 “因此，如果MorseLife将这种疫苗赠送给关系密切的人，则必须对此负责。”

罗伯特·弗罗默（Robert Fromer）是纽约市一家律师事务所的前执行合伙人，该家族基金会自2015年以来已向MorseLife捐款45,000美元，他说他和妻子上周在MorseLife遭到枪击。

他估计现场约有12名来自Walgreens的疫苗接种者，他称赞该活动运行良好。他在周一的简短电话采访中说：“我从那里的听众那里听到的消息是，我们非常感激。”

他说，他和他的妻子都已80岁，“申请”接受免疫接种并被接受，但他拒绝详细说明这一过程。他坚称，MorseLife所管理的接种并非严格针对长期护理机构的居民，而是针对西棕榈滩的所有老年居民。但是，棕榈滩县的卫生官员表示，普通民众无法在MorseLife签约。

现年80岁的Suzanne Levine是三个MorseLife附属实体的董事会成员，她的邀请以书面形式发出-也是来自Myers。她说，她听取了捐赠者的抱怨，称与MorseLife无关的有权势人士也已经接种了疫苗。

她说：“我听到有人说，‘我的天哪，从来没有给MorseLife一角钱的人都被邀请了。”当被问及这些人是如何被邀请时，莱文说：“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.”