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As COVID vaccinations ramp up with a third vaccine authorized for use, community leaders and health officials across California are pushing to see that LGBTQ individuals sign up to get inoculated. Yet there will be no way to know just how many LGBTQ people get a shot.
The state s public health department is not tracking vaccinations among LGBTQ Californians, the Bay Area Reporter has learned. The lack of gathering sexual orientation and gender identity data related to the vaccines comes as California health officials remain blind to just how widespread COVID-19 has been within the Golden State s LGBTQ population. We just confirmed the state is collecting no SOGI data on vaccines, gay state Senator Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco) told the B.A.R. March 2. I think this points to a broader issue, and I want to be really frank that we don t see health care providers and counties and the state constantly quibbling and making excuses around race and age and gender data. They just collec
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