⢠Lack of access to transportation
Those factors are grouped into 4 âthemesâ (socioeconomic status, household composition and disability, minority status and language, housing type and transportation) with separate individual rankings, and from those, one overall ranking is made.
The amendment is part of a larger supplemental spending bill related to how federal COVID-19 relief funds awarded to the state should be distributed. Many Republicans have argued that greater consideration should be given to the elderly at-risk population and most vulnerable. Democrats oppose the changes and have said decisions about vaccine distribution should be left to experts and have concerns about disproportionately impacting communities of color and others hit harder by COVID-19. Sen. Adam Hollier, a Detroit Democrat, pointed out that of the more than 15,300 COVID-19 deaths in Michigan, 2,058 were residents of Wayne County while more than 1,800 lived in the City of Detroit. Much o