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State recruits teens to spend $1 million in federal recovery funds

State recruits teens to spend $1 million in federal recovery funds

Equity concerns remain in Oregon s vaccine distribution plan

For weeks, members of Oregon's Vaccine Advisory Committee wanted to prioritize BIPOC communities in vaccine distribution. Due to legal challenges, that's no longer an option. The group was formed to help the Oregon Health Authority eliminate health inequities in the state's COVID-19 distribution. This comes as data from the CDC continues to show that Black and Latinx populations have been disproportionately impacted by the pandemic.

Oregon blocks public access to vaccine equity group s meeting

Communities of color getting left behind in vaccine rollout

Communities of color getting left behind in vaccine rollout Jessie Hellmann and Marty Johnson © Getty Communities of color getting left behind in vaccine rollout States are struggling to deliver more COVID-19 vaccines to communities of color as scrutiny increases over a racial inequity in the number of shots administered across the country. Officials have grappled with how to fairly distribute limited supply of Pfizer and Moderna vaccines, often prioritizing the elderly, health care workers and other front-line workers for the first doses. But state-level data reveals a racial gap in who is getting the vaccines, with Black and Hispanic people receiving far fewer COVID-19 inoculations than their white counterparts despite getting sick and dying at much higher rates.

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