Health policy expert says nuanced guidance about risks associated with various activities would help vaccinated individuals make informed decisions.
Morning Consult economist says even a moderate increase in comfort among vaccinated Americans could “have an outsized impact on economic activity” due to their higher income, urban concentration.
Being vaccinated against COVID-19 has given some Americans the confidence to return to many aspects of their pre-pandemic lives. But with less than half of U.S. adults fully inoculated, many of those who have received a vaccine are still reluctant to engage in a wide range of public activities.
In fact, Morning Consult’s Return to Normal weekly trend data indicates that U.S. adults who have received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine are less likely to feel comfortable doing a wide range of public activities from attending a concert to dining in a restaurant than their unvaccinated peers.
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Asian American data more likely to be missing or misclassified
In April 2020, Islam and her community health worker team conducted a COVID-19 needs assessment of New York City’s South Asian communities. Of the 200 people they reached and surveyed, she said, close to 40% knew a close friend or family member who had died from the virus.
Stella Yi, an assistant professor at NYU’s Grossman School of Medicine, said New York City’s Health Department released race-specific data on April 8, 2020. But it just wasn’t adding up with the community-level reports from throughout the city, she said.
Stella S. Yi is a professor at NYU’s School of Medicine in the Department of Population Health. (Courtesy of Stella Yi)
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Health Disparities Symposium Presenters
NYU Langone’s Section for Health Equity was honored to host Mary T. Bassett, MD, MPH, as the keynote speaker for the 2020 Health Disparities Symposium, which was centered around the theme “Turning Research into Action.”
Keynote Address
With more than 30 years of experience in public health, Dr. Mary T. Bassett has dedicated her career to advancing health equity. Dr. Bassett is currently the director of the François-Xavier Bagnoud (FXB) Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University and the FXB Professor of the Practice of Health and Human Rights at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Hea