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'Not rocket science': US experts demand COVID vaccine race data | Coronavirus pandemic News


When the first cases of COVID-19 were reported in the United States last year, public health officials and community experts warned that Black and other people of colour would be disproportionately hard hit.
Their warning was quickly proven true, with Black, Hispanic and other racialised communities bearing the brunt of infections, deaths and hospitalisations linked to the coronavirus in the year since it began spreading across the country.
Now, many of those experts say a dearth of data on race related to the administration of COVID-19 vaccines risks leaving those same communities behind – or worse, furthering the damage the virus continues to wreak. ....

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'Not rocket science': US experts demand COVID vaccine race data


‘Not rocket science’: US experts demand COVID vaccine race data
Jillian Kestler-D Amours
© A healthcare worker administers a shot of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine to a woman at a pop-up vaccin.
A healthcare worker administers a shot of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine to a woman at a pop-up vaccination site in Manhattan in New York City [File: Mike Segar/Reuters]
When the first cases of COVID-19 were reported in the United States last year, public health officials and community experts warned that Black and other people of colour would be disproportionately hard hit.
Their warning was quickly proven true, with Black, Hispanic and other racialised communities bearing the brunt of infections, deaths and hospitalisations linked to the coronavirus in the year since it began spreading across the country. ....

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