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Those living in areas deemed to have some of the poorest access to healthy living conditions in the state, including hundreds of thousands in San Diego County, will have greater access to new doses of coronavirus vaccine due to a new allocation approach formally announced by the state Thursday.
In addition to percentages already set aside for teachers, law enforcement and childcare workers, the state will reserve 40 percent of its incoming vaccine supply for places listed in the bottom 25 percent of California’s Healthy Places Index.
The set of statewide statistics attempts to identify, by ZIP code, which places are most and least conducive to good health and well-being, taking into account two dozen factors including educational attainment, employment, home ownership, household overcrowding, air quality and even the number of nearby supermarkets.