Health
‘We don’t want to fall into complacency’: State numbers show disparities in vaccine distribution between races, ethnicities
March 16, 2021 9:43 PM Madalyn O Neill
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“Communities of color have been disproportionately affected by COVID-19,” said Ajay Sethi, a UW-Madison associate professor of population health sciences.
As of Tuesday, about 24% of white Dane County residents had gotten at least one dose compared to 10% of Black people, 12% of Asian people and 23% of American Indian people in the county. The numbers across the state show similar disparities.
“There’s a history of that, but we don’t want to fall into complacency,” Sethi said.
The change will expand doses offered to people between 16-64 with certain high-risk medical conditions, as well as frontline essential workers including those in public safety, public transit, clergy and more.
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WHEELING Walgreens pharmacies throughout West Virginia now will be scheduling COVID-19 vaccinations at their sites themselves. They no longer will use the state’s Everbridge scheduling system to set up their appointments.
A spokesperson from the Department of Health and Human Resources confirmed Tuesday evening that the pharmacy chain will handle its own vaccination appointments moving forward.
It had been pulling names from the Everbridge system since West Virginia started taking part in the Federal Retail Pharmacy Program in February.
“Walgreens has agreed to participate as part of our joint interagency task force and we will be pushing lists to Walgreens from our Everbridge system in conjunction with each county location where those Walgreens are,” James Hoyer, the state’s director of the Interagency Task Force for Vaccinations, said at the February announcement. “It’s a coordinated, consolidated and synchronized effort to get doses ou
Where to get a COVID-19 vaccine in downtown Phoenix
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Over 2 million doses of COVID-19 vaccinations have been administered in Arizona. With the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Federal Retail Pharmacy Program making vaccines available at more grocery stores and pharmacies, people have more options for getting their doses.
“I’m an evangelist for getting the vaccine into local settings like pharmacies, doctor’s offices, and community health centers,” Will Humble, Executive Director of the Arizona Public Health Association and former Director of the Arizona Department of Health Services, said in an email. “Bringing the vaccine to the people rather than bringing the people to the vaccine.”