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Vaccination Gaps Persist in Black, Hispanic Neighborhoods
As Travis County, Texas, aims to reach herd immunity levels for COVID-19, local researchers express concern that many economically disadvantaged communities are about six weeks behind in vaccinations.
July 22, 2021 • (TNS) As Travis County, Texas, continues to reach for herd immunity from the coronavirus, local researchers say that more efforts need to be focused toward neighborhoods in Austin s eastern crescent, where vaccine coverage lags by several weeks.
Spencer Woody, postdoctoral fellow for the University of Texas COVID-19 modeling consortium, said Austin s more economically disadvantaged areas have been affected the most, and continue to be, by the pandemic. The crescent spans north to south, east of Interstate 35, where many Black and Hispanic families live.
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Our people were left behind | Low vaccination rates among Travis Co. Latinos not surprising to advocates
The Travis County Latino community makes up almost 34% of the county s population but accounts for just 19% of vaccinations. Author: Mari Salazar (KVUE) Updated: 11:13 PM CDT May 13, 2021
AUSTIN, Texas Vaccination rates for Austin s Latino community are alarming to some advocates, but they said it s not surprising. The Austin Latino Coalition said throughout the entire pandemic, help was lacking from local government to vaccine minority populations. The coalition s leader, Paul Saldaña, said the State of Texas recently gave them resources to vaccinate more people. They actually appointed providers and contractors to our coalition. So for the last month, we have been providing vaccines to our hard-to-reach vulnerable populations, specifically in the areas of ZIP codes that have been most disproportionately impacted, said Saldaña.