To the editor: I am an African American internal medicine physician who practices in the Crenshaw area. Two of your recently published articles on COVID-19 vaccination access include a piece on individuals receiving vaccinations outside their assigned tier and a column by Steve Lopez on the difficulty he had trying to get his first shot.
This difficulty is what many of my African American colleagues in healthcare and our patients are facing. We’ve endured the inequitable siting of testing locations, the inequitable distribution of Remdesivir to our community hospitals, and now the inequities in accessing vaccines, all of which create racial disparities in COVID-19 morbidity and mortality.