Is it ever OK to cut in line for a vaccine?

Is it ever OK to cut in line for a vaccine?   Who exactly can get vaccinated can be complicated. While CDC advisers issued their own recommendations about who should go first, states were able to make their own decisions. In Hawaii, those who can be vaccinated include some essential workers and anyone age 60 and older, as well as anyone on dialysis, with a  severe respiratory disease, on oxygen or those undergoing chemotherapy or other infusion therapy. In my home state of Georgia, eligibility was just opened up to anyone 16 and older.   As a result, stories have emerged about people receiving the vaccine in one state who would not have qualified in another. For many, the rollout of one of the most precious commodities on the planet seems like luck-of-the-draw or unfair.   I spoke with medical ethicist Art Caplan to ask if there was ever a time when “jumping the line” was acceptable. It's an obvious no when you’re bribing or lying your way to the head of the line, he said. But in other situations, it may be OK.    For example, if the administrator says, "We just opened up a package of Pfizer and we've got nine more units. Anybody know anyone who can get in here in the next hour?"... It was: Call your friends, call somebody. It wasn't: Call the sickest or call people who have chronic conditions. It was just get anybody. So people did call and they came in and they technically weren't eligible and they technically jumped the line. But I think that's morally defensible. I don't want any vaccine tossed out. I don't want any vaccine wasted.”    All 50 states have now announced when they plan to open up coronavirus vaccinations to everyone eligible under US Food and Drug Administration emergency use authorizations -- if they haven't done so already.   On Monday, President Joe Biden announced that 90% of adults will be eligible to get a coronavirus vaccine within the next three weeks as well as have a vaccination site within 5 miles of where they live.