The COVID-19 pandemic has fundamentally changed the world. It has also revealed many new questions. The fact that a vaccine can be developed, produced and distributed already during a global health crisis is a completely new phenomenon. But what principles should be used to distribute that vaccine? Insufficient production and inadequate distribution capacities around the world have pushed this question to the fore. A research team from the University of Göttingen conducted a representative survey in Germany and America in June 2021 to uncover how the public feels about this. The results were published in the journal Vaccine.