By Rob Sussman
May 20, 2021 | 5:58 PM
GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) There’s a local effort to get the COVID-19 vaccine to minority communities.
State and national health agencies say that COVID-19 disproportionately affects people of color. On Thursday, leaders from minority communities in Brown County spoke.
“Black, Latinx and Native American communities have had higher cases, higher hospitalizations and higher rates of death from COVID-19 that have to do a lot with underlying conditions,” Shiva Bidar-Sielaff said. “It really has to do with a long history of structural and systemic racism and barriers to optimal care.”
In Northeast Wisconsin, state Department of Health Services data shows vaccination rates in communities of color lag behind those of white residents.
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