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The available data also suggests racial gaps in who is vaccinated. — About 60 percent of the people who have gotten a vaccine are listed as White. — CDC analysis suggests 60 percent of health care workers, 75 percent of nursing home residents are White.https://bit.ly/3oBhyld
Experts note that the current availability of vaccines to people 65 and older in many states — regardless of health status or occupation — will disproportionately benefit White people, who, because of systemic health care disparities, are more likely to live to an older age.
Currently, efforts to expand vaccine access to older Americans means that many frontline workers, who are largely women of color, are at risk of falling to the back of the line.https://bit.ly/3jekbbJ
With sizable holes in current data — race and ethnicity information is unavailable for 47 percent of vaccinated people, per the CDC report — it is difficult to fully understand what the racial breakdown of vaccinated people looks like.
In a briefing Monday, members of the administration's COVID-19 task force urged states to be diligent in collecting data that tracks race and ethnicity amongst the people who get the vaccine.https://bit.ly/3oBhyld
So far, almost 32 million vaccine doses have been administered, according to Bloomberg News. About 25 million Americans have received a dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, CDC Director Rochelle Walensky said Monday.
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Almost twice as many women as men have received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine in the U.S., according to new