Newsweek posted this article today: https://www.newsweek.com/joe-biden-covid-adviser-ezekial-emmanuel-1546208

The article quotes Emmanuel from October 2014: "if there were to be a flu pandemic, a younger person who has yet to live a complete life ought to get the vaccine or any antiviral drugs."

He says "complete life." Let's take a closer look at what he calls "The Complete Lives System."

In a Jan 31, 2009 he wrote an article for the Lancet, a medical journal. At the time, Emmanuel was Director of Bioethics for the Natl’ Institute of Health. In the article he talks about what he calls The Complete Lives System: how medical treatment should be allocated in an age of scarce resources. “When implemented, the complete lives system produces a priority curve on which individuals aged between roughly 15 and 45 years get the most substantial chance [of receiving a scarce medical intervention], whereas the youngest and oldest people get chances that are attenuated.”

More simply put, people who are roughly between the ages of 15-45 years old would have access to medical treatment, those outside this range would not. “Adolescents have received substantial education and parental care, investments that will be wasted without a complete life. Infants, by contrasts, have not yet received these investments. Unlike allocation by sex or race, allocation by age is not discrimination... Treating 65-year-olds because of stereotypes or falsehood would be ageist; treating the differently because they have already had more life years is not.

A graph of the complete lives system was included in the article from the Lancet, to view the graph go to @DragonsTeeth on Parler to view.

Emmanuel served as Special Advisor for Health Policy for President Obama during the duration of the debate on healthcare.