I think our evidence disagrees with this! The risk of a highly disadvantaged 14yo in the US is orders of magnitude lower than a middle-income 75yo in Nepal (for example)
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What you fail to consider that in a nation that has a long history of health inequity caused by White Supremacy and the denial of access to healthcare and medicine, the priority must be to care for those who live here and have suffered that damage.
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Especially when you remember that access to those vaccines has been unequal, leaving more of those very marginalized to suffer even as privileged White folks in that nation continue to get access.https://twitter.com/dropoutnation/status/1391462993687457794 …
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RiShawn Biddle @dropoutnationH/T to@DataDrivenMD, here's another example of how vaccine access is the problem, not vaccine hesitancy. Black and Latino areas in California are losing out on vaccine supply because of the zip codes they live in. https://twitter.com/snowjake/status/1390349319228690435 …Show this thread1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
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Keep this in mind: Here in the U.S., just 25 percent of Black folks and 27 percent of Latino folks have been vaccinated, compared to 39 percent of White folks. That number gets even more stratified when you look by age, with older White folks over 70 having been prioritized.
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This is a major problem because of vaccination of older White populations, younger Black, Latino and Indigenous folks are taking larger hits from COVID infection, death and debilitation.https://www.sciencenews.org/article/covid-coronavirus-surge-4th-wave-us-young-cases-vaccination …
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As it is, as economist
@WSpriggs of AFL-CIO has noted, COVID is primarily a disease of working age for Black and Brown populations. Working age folks who also have children who, at some point, will be back in school buildings (and should be able to be).1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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In this nation, in which there is no universal single-payer healthcare, and Black and Brown folks already have lower access to care than White people, one infection can wipe out an entire family's finances (as well as damage their ability to survive for decades).
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It's great to think globally. But if you are the marginalized in the wealthiest nation on Earth, you better think about survival. I can't support delaying vaccinations that can safeguard the lives of my son, nephew and niece, as well as other Black and Brown kids.
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You have to look beyond globalized data and look at the historical and sociological contexts in these discussions. Especially given that the very nations withholding vaccinations to developing countries (and more-importantly, denying them the ability to produce their own)...
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are also denying vaccine access inside their own nations to their own marginalized populations. That cannot be ignored in the analysis. Your piece is good generally. But it is blinded by that lack of understanding. It should be amended to acknowledge that.
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So, I'm not disagreeing with any of that (@GYamey pointed me to an excellent piece that makes this argument that I referenced!). I do think, however, that the fact that elderly people in LMICs are not being vaccinated while children in HICs is a big issue
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Within the rollout of vaccines to kids, equity is a vital consideration, but the idea that this rollout should start when the highest-risk people who are not fortunate enough to live in HICs don't yet have access to vaccines at all is, I think, potentially a bigger issue
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Except that's not how it really works in high income nations. Again, systemic bigotry ensures that in many cases, the marginalized in those nations have, in practice, as much difficulty in accessing jabs as majority populations in low income nations.
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