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Vermont to Give Minority Residents Priority for Covid Vaccines
- salawat 6y agoFor those unaware: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuskegee_Syphilis_Study https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuskegee_Syphilis_Study Minorities and the Public Health edifice of the United States have more than enough reason to be distrustful of one another. It's not the same world now, given, but it's not exactly outside of living memory either. Trust in Public Health services is key, because without that, no one will come in and it becomes incredibly difficult to get ahead of Public Health issues.. To be honest, instead of the "Let's do people of color first" approach, I'd have looked into implementing vaccine sites closer to their communities and rolled it out at the same time. Doing that also cuts down on the reflexive perception of inequality in the eyes of the process. This is actually called out in the article, so U find it puzzling why that approach was shot down... Equal really should mean equal; no exceptions.
- jfengel 6y agoIsn't it a little late in the process for that anyway? We've been giving people vaccinations for months. Where I am (Maryland), we've already reached the point where some locations are taking walk-ins. We burned through phase 2 and rushed to phase 3. It won't be long before there's no priority needed at all. Everything switches from desperation to get an appointment to desperation to get the antivaxxers in at all. This doesn't sound like priority to me. It sounds like giving them the dregs and pretending it's the cream of the crop. If they wanted to prioritize minorities in order to gain their trust, the time for that was January, not April. Yeah, it would have been even better to do it by geography rather than forcing people to make racial declarations about themselves, but I think the real failure is that either way it's too little and too late.