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“We are missing the boat on equity,” says Marcus Plescia, who is chief medical officer at the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials, to Kaiser Health News. “If we don’t step back and address that, it’s going to get worse.”
Part of the issue is that people in minority groups may not be getting all the information they should have about where to get the vaccine and if they are eligible. In a survey conducted by the Kaiser Family Foundation from Jan. 11 to 18, the survey found that six out of 10 “Black and Hispanic adults say they do not have enough information about where to get the vaccine, compared to about half of White adults who say the same,” according to a press release.