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U.S. spot vaccine image
It is the first detailed picture of the U.S. vaccination campaign that is not detailed enough.
While age and gender data were recorded for almost all of the 13 million Americans who received at least one dose through Jan. 14, the government does not have data on race and ethnicity for about half of those. received the vaccine, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
“We cannot ensure a fair vaccination program without data to guide us,” said Marcella Nunez-Smith, who heads U.S. President Joe Biden’s Health Equality Action Group. “I’m worried about the way we are. We need to address these sufficient data points as an urgent priority. ”
Several studies have shown that the the burden of the pandemic has fallen harder on ethnic minorities. Nunez-Smith, who raised the data gaps at Monday’s briefing, said Covid-19 parity “must be achieved with a very wide lens. We know that this disease did not affect all ethnic groups. ”
A nurse will be preparing a dose of Moderna’s Covid-19 formulation at a vaccination site in New York on January 10, 2021.
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Among those for whom vaccine data are available, 60% were white non-Hispanic, 11.5% were Hispanic or Latino, 5.4% were black, 6% were Asian. Those recorded as multiple or multiple races accounted for 14.4%.
The CDC report warned that interpretation of the demographic data is limited due to the data gaps and differences in how race and ethnicity are recorded. However, the percentage of black vaccine recipients “showing lower compared to the percentage of people who are black” in numbers who have been prioritized for the vaccine, including long-term care residents.
A separate CDC study showed that there were significant differences in vaccination levels between a nursing home and a long-term care facility. residents and the staff who care for them. At more than 11,000 facilities, an average of 37.5% of employees received the vaccine, according to a separate CDC study. Meanwhile, 78% of middle-aged residents received at least one glimpse in the early weeks of a federal program run by CVS Health and Walgreens Boots Alliance.
The pharmacy chains host a series of three clinics at facilities to administer the bilateral inoculations. Some have reported a significant increase in the number of staff in the second clinic.
In Louisiana, only 26% of nursing home workers who received vaccination in the original clinics received one, compared to 69% of residents, said Joseph Kanter, an official with the Louisiana Department of Health. In a positive sign, the state is seeing a “significant increase” in employee acceptance for the second of three recorded trips, he said.–Iain Tozzi
Listen up
Since Pfizer and Moderna vaccine shipping began in the U.S. in mid-December, doctors, nurses, and other professionals have tended to be exposed to the novel coronavirus. But health care workers who are not in line with hospitals and major health systems say they are being monitored. Elise Young reports that thousands of health workers are still seeking vaccines. Get the program here.
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