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Is the COVID vaccine a real vaccine?
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Is the COVID vaccine a real vaccine?
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Elizabeth Griffin, 86, is given her first dose of the Moderna coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccine by Anya Harris at Red Hook Neighborhood Senior Center in the Red Hood neighborhood of the Brooklyn borough on February 22, 2021 in New York City. Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images
Covid-19 vaccines emerged as a medical breakthrough, but like many other innovations, they have been disproportionately helping white Americans as compared to other racial and ethnic groups.
As of February 2021, a stark Covid-19 vaccine disparity remains. In Delaware, Black people account for 24% of statewide Covid-19 cases, yet only 9% have received the vaccine. Similarly in Colorado, Hispanic people account for 36% of Covid-19 cases, but only 6% have been vaccinated.
In the middle of January, as 300 people a day died from COVID-19 in Los Angeles County and an additional 15,000 became newly infected, a friend of mine posted a photo of himself to Instagram. “Bye COVID,” the caption read, with a image of him getting a shot in his arm. But wait my friend is young and healthy and doesn’t work in healthcare, so how did he get the vaccine?
When I asked the friend who requested I not use his name for this story, so let’s call him Peter how he got the vaccine, he told me “Strings, brother.” When I asked if it was ethical that he, a relatively low-risk individual, get the shot before high-risk individuals in desperate need, he told me, “Either it’s thrown away or someone uses it. I’ll vote for using it.”
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