Can the super-rich skip the vaccine line?

Follow Us Get the newsletter Greetings Quicktake readers! This week, will VIP patients get the vaccine early? Plus: Denmark's massive mink cull is a cautionary tale for the world. Stream now for free. The vaccine equality divide Ensuring vaccine equity is becoming more complex as the world embarks on the biggest immunization effort in history. American film director Oliver Stone said he recently received an initial jab of Russia's Sputnik V vaccine, signaling the rich and powerful may be able to skip the line—a troubling prospect since lower-income individuals are more likely to get severely ill or die from Covid-19. As distribution continues, vaccine doses will likely be in short supply until late spring, and this week, the U.S. faced the first hiccups in its rollout of Pfizer's shots. Delivery of 3,900 doses was held up because they were too cold, and officials said the U.S. would get 900,000 fewer doses next week than were available this week, a warning to manage expectations when dealing with a vaccine program of this scale.—Andrew Mach Are you still watching? Island-hopping drones could help bridge the vaccine equality divide. Bloomberg's Brendan Murray joins Take Charge. In brighter news, the stage is set for Moderna's shot to be the second vaccine cleared in the U.S. What to watch if ...your Amazon delivery is running late. Smart trucks in China are watching if drivers doze, speed or slack off and weigh cargo in real time to prevent stealing. Bloomberg's Katrina Nicholas joins Take Geo. ...you have TSA PreCheck. There's increasing talk about using so-called immunity passports to get economies moving again. Airlines are already experimenting. Bloomberg's Stephanie Baker joins Take Charge. ...you stand with athlete activists. European soccer's latest high-profile incident of alleged racism has advocates calling for zero-tolerance policies for leagues, teams and fans. Bloomberg's Jennifer Zabasajja reports. Paid Post This NYC Startup Raises $51M to Disrupt the Retirement Industry With over 110 million Americans over age 50, it's no wonder this Princeton grad's startup just raised another $28 million to help people conquer retirement. Learn more about how its no-cost tool can help you plan to retire comfortably. SmartAsset Episodes to binge watch now The Country That Learned to Live With Covid-19 | Storylines How the Pandemic Made Your Boss Big Brother | Future of Work Plastic-Eating Bacteria Could Help Clean Up the Planet | Moonshot Where We're Going, We Won't Need Roads | Accelerate The 15-Minute Cities of the Future | CityLab One question, answered What can we learn from #minkgate? Denmark beat back the first wave of the pandemic in the spring, a feat muffled by scandal in November when the government ordered the extermination of 17 million mink, decimating the fur industry. Bloomberg's Morten Buttler joins Take Geo. We want to know The struggle is real. The pandemic has deprived many of us of the usual stimuli that keep us in balance (think: human contact and changing scenery) and induced very real feelings of anxiety, exhaustion and burnout, aka, Covid fatigue. So we asked a doctor how to deal with it. How are you staying mentally and physically healthy during quarantine? Tell us your story. Our favorites of the week Negative Emissions Could Become a Trillion-Dollar Industry The Robotaxi That Can Drive Day and Night on a Single Charge Lego Bets on China's Children With Hundreds of New Stores NYC's Historic Katz's Deli Still Serving Through the Pandemic Face Masks Like You've Never Seen Before We launched a 24/7 streaming network to reinvent news with live global coverage and original shows on business, tech, politics and culture. Make sense of the biggest stories changing your business and your world. Stream now for free.   Before it's here, it's on the Bloomberg Terminal. Find out more about how the Terminal delivers information and analysis that financial professionals can't find anywhere else. Learn more.   You received this message because you are subscribed to Bloomberg's Bloomberg Quicktake newsletter. Unsubscribe | Bloomberg.com | Contact Us Bloomberg L.P. 731 Lexington, New York, NY, 10022