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It is very unlikely that New York has failed to make the vaccine readily available to blacks, as I know it has prioritized blacks for testing and treatment. NY
by chernevik 5y ago
It is very unlikely that New York has failed to make the vaccine readily available to blacks, as I know it has prioritized blacks for testing and treatment. NY city has deliberately concentrated testing sites in black and minority neighborhoods. City triage regulations for dispersal of medication have explicitly preferred blacks and minorities. I would expect this attention to extend to vaccine availability, and that the powerful black advocacies would complain if it weren't.
Nevertheless, in New York blacks are under-vaccinated.
- ZeroGravitas 5y agoNew York is one of the few states that has them ahead. New York City seems to be lagging behind on coverage generally, but that may just be an artifact of it being a very big city, big enough to be called out individually in a list of mostly states. I don't think it affects the general trend though.