Cronyism and connections have no place in the rollout of this vaccine. If we don’t do this right, the consequences could be quite catastrophic, so it’s really critical that people be hypersensitive to the rules of the game.

Ruth Faden, a bioethicist at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, commenting to The New York Times for its Jan. 10 report, “At Elite Medical Centers, Even Workers Who Don’t Qualify Are Vaccinated.”