[dabigv13]

From what I was seeing as of a couple months ago, Black and Hispanic people were two to three times as likely as White people according to their percentage of the population in Southern California to get covid and die from it.

Black and Hispanic populations have higher degrees of comborbidities in part due to the environment they live in, with worse food options and more pollution. Teasing all these factors out is difficult. 

I agree that race alone is perhaps not the most important factor at play, but it should be one. Not sure how that wouldn't get tripped up in the courts though. Whatever ends up happening, I guarantee you that white, wealthy populations will end up with much better vaccination rates than poor, minority ones.

I am very skeptical of how this roll out will work. Even amongst health care workers, I imagine the distribution may be different depending on if you work at a large organization or university versus a solo practice. Big orgs will be able to look out for their employees more than solo practices and small groups. And as pointed out, it's not just docs and nurses, but the janitors and clerks and everyone else who works at hospitals or clinics will need vaccines too. As we saw with PPE when it was especially scarce early on, the distribution was anything but smooth and equitable.

[dabigv13]

From what I was seeing as of a couple months ago, Black and Hispanic people were two to three times as likely as White people according to their percentage of the population in Southern California to get covid and die from it.

Black and Hispanic populations have higher degrees of comborbidities in part due to the environment they live in, with worse food options and more pollution. Teasing all these factors out is difficult. 

I agree that race alone is perhaps not the most important factor at play, but it should be one. Not sure how that wouldn't get tripped up in the courts though. Whatever ends up happening, I guarantee you that white, wealthy populations will end up with much better vaccination rates than poor, minority ones.

I am very skeptical of how this roll out will work. Even amongst health care workers, I imagine the distribution may be different depending on if you work at a large organization or university versus a solo practice. Big orgs will be able to look out for their employees more than solo practices and small groups. And as pointed out, it's not just docs and nurses, but the janitors and clerks and everyone else who works at hospitals or clinics will need vaccines too. As we saw with PPE when it was especially scarce early on, the distribution was anything but smooth and equitable.