July 19, 2021: The Delta Variant Effect; Appreciating Natural Wonders With Subpar Parks
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Healthcare System Faces Mistrust and Equity Issues in Effort to Vaccinate Communities of Color
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Vaccination rates are lagging for Latino and Black Coloradans, as well as for men.
These two are exactly the kinds of people the state is hoping to reach now. They’re both young he’s 22, she’s 18 and from groups Latinx and Black Coloradans whose vaccination rates lag behind their share of the population.
But at least so far on this day last week at this site, they don’t have a lot of company. Nurse Hayley DeForest said it’s been pretty quiet.
“Demand, I feel like has gone down a little bit,” De Forest said. “It s just trying to figure out who still needs vaccines, because obviously, we have not vaccinated the entire population.”
By ISAAC STANLEY-BECKER | The Washington Post | Published: April 9, 2021
Stars and Stripes is making stories on the coronavirus pandemic available free of charge. See more staff and wire stories here. Sign up for our daily coronavirus newsletter here. Please support our journalism with a subscription. WASHINGTON States have delayed ordering hundreds of thousands of vaccine doses available to them even as coronavirus outbreaks escalate a sign the nation is moving past its supply pinch and now faces more acute challenges related to demand, staffing and inoculation of hard-to-reach populations. The question that defined the early weeks of the vaccine rollout was why states were taking so long to administer the doses they got from the federal government. Four months into the effort, what s most mystifying is the number of states waiting to order all the doses they ve been allotted, based on their adult populations and the supplies available that week.