How three top health organizations are tackling health disparities through Covid-19 vaccines
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Many hospitals and health systems are leveraging their efforts to address racial inequity in the distribution of Covid-19 vaccines as a springboard to address broader health care disparities, Ross Johnson reports for
Modern Healthcare. Here s how three organizations
Kaiser Permanente,
According to
Modern Healthcare, CDC data indicates that as of March 25, 66% of white people have received at least one dose of an authorized Covid-19 vaccine. In comparison, just 9% of Latino Americans, 8% of Black Americans, 5% of Asian Americans, fewer than 2% of Native Americans and Alaskan Natives, and just 0.6% of Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders have received the same.
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The second coronavirus vaccine was approved Friday and arrived Monday in central Ohio, where one of the first doses was administered at Mount Carmel St. Ann s Hospital.
Dr. Mark Herbert, an infectious disease specialist, was the health system s first frontline worker to be immunized just after 11 a.m. Monday. His shot, much like many others inside hospitals the past week, was met with applause from a handful of Mount Carmel leaders who watched.
Doctors and politicians have hailed the vaccine as the beginning of the end of the pandemic. After receiving his shot Monday, Herbert praised the work of scientists to bring COVID-19 vaccines to fruition in record time, but he said it will still be several months before the shots end the outbreak.
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Medical professionals across Ohio are beginning to receive coronavirus vaccines, Gov. Mike DeWine said.
“We started the process of vaccinating them against this terrible disease,” DeWine said. “It was truly a moment of hope. The way I look at it, every day somewhere in the state of Ohio someone will be getting vaccinated, they’ll be getting the opportunity not to get COVID-19.”
The first month, Ohio is expected to receive about 660,000 doses of the vaccine and is expected to receive the same amount in about a month. DeWine said he expects herd immunity will take a long time. He didn’t offer a date for when the vaccine would be available for the general public.