Editorial: Crucial data for vaccine rollout tardy
Express-News Editorial Board
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A local firefighter administers the first dose of the vaccine to a resident last month. The state has done a poor job of tracking vaccine data, especially for minorities.Jessica Phelps /Staff photographer
In the early weeks of COVID-19 almost a year ago, unbelievably statistics showed the virus was disproportionately infecting African Americans and Latinos. Given the historic disparities in health care for those communities and the related underlying health problems making them more susceptible to infection, this wasn’t surprising.
Last April, the American Medical Association, or AMA, released a letter recommending that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, state and local health departments, health care institutions and laboratories collect and make available all race and ethnicity data when it came to testing, hospitalization and mortality connected to the viru
Nobody is getting enough : Why Texas ranks near the bottom for COVID-19 vaccines per capita
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People wait in their cars for a vaccination against COVID-19 at a drive-thru vaccination site set up by the city and United Memorial Medical Center, Thursday, Jan. 28, 2021, at Delmar Stadium in Houston. The vaccinations, the Moderna vaccine, are available by appointment only.Mark Mulligan, Houston Chronicle / Staff photographerShow MoreShow Less
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Motorists wait in line at the drive-thru COVID-19 vaccine site at Delmar Stadium on Wednesday.Godofredo A. Vásquez, Houston Chronicle / Staff photographerShow MoreShow Less
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People wait in their cars for a vaccination against COVID-19 at a drive-thru vaccination site set up by the city and United Memorial Medical Center, Thursday, Jan. 28, 2021, at Delmar Stadium in Houston. The vaccinations, the Moderna vaccine, are available by appointment only.Mark Mulligan, Houston Chronicle / Staff photographerSho