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From a college senior to the first woman to receive the vaccine, they shared their lives with us (Illustrations by Sol Cotti for The Lily) The Lily News
Mar. 13, 2021
When the World Health Organization declared the coronavirus outbreak a pandemic on March 11, 2020, it sent the United States plunging into the unknown. It was clear that this event would be unlike anything most Americans had ever seen in their lifetimes and many people started, or continued, keeping journals to capture what that was like.
Stop Worrying About the Wrong People Getting Vaccinated
This should be pretty simple: A crippling global pandemic has attenuated our economic and social lives, and that’s not great. The logic for preserving those restrictions in perpetuity will dissolve when a certain number of Americans have the antibodies necessary to prevent a tidal wave of infections that could overwhelm hospital systems. That number is the threshold for “herd immunity,” functionally putting the pandemic to an end. And the faster we get there, the better.
And yet, there is a teeming subculture that seems to believe the series of medical miracles that could bring an abrupt end to the pandemic isn’t an unalloyed public good. For these people, the distribution of COVID-19 vaccines must observe the demographic hierarchies with which social-justice advocates concern themselves. Herd immunity is desirable, of course, but not if the wrong people get us there.
A COVID-19 vaccination site in a Latino neighbourhood in New York City hard hit by the pandemic saw an overwhelming number of white people from outside the community show up to get the shot this month, city leaders say, laying bare a national disparity that shows people of colour are being vaccinated at dramatically lower rates. The site at the Armory Track & Field Center in Washington Heights was launched Jan. 14 by New York-Presbyterian Hospital and New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo. Vaccine appointments were initially offered to people age 65 and older who live in New York state. Lawmakers who represent Washington Heights and a doctor who staffed the site last week said the first wave of vaccinations went to many White New Yorkers over 65 who travelled to the Armory from other parts of the city and state.
A vaccination site meant to serve a hard-hit Latino neighborhood in New York instead serviced more Whites from other areas
A Covid-19 vaccination site in a Latino neighborhood in New York City hard hit by the pandemic saw an overwhelming number of White people from outside the community show up to get the shot this month, city leaders say, laying bare a national disparity that shows people of color are being vaccinated at dramatically lower rates.
The site at the Armory Track & Field Center in Washington Heights was launched Jan. 14 by NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital and New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo.
Vaccine appointments were initially offered to people age 65 and older who live in New York state.