The Montbello Connector Service pilot program would help fill in the transportation gaps in the neighborhood where it's hard to get from point A to point B.
The section, Insights into COVID Diagnoses and Race/Ethnicity in the Colorado Health Institute s new report.
A short drive makes a big difference
A few comparisons between neighborhoods are made throughout the report. Still, one that sticks out to researchers is comparing the Westwood and Platt Park neighborhoods - separated by just under 5 miles.
The Westwood neighborhood s Southwest area had a little more than two and a half times of COVID-19 cases than the average of the analyzed area.
According to the report, it s also ranked among the five census tracts with the most non-English speakers and people of color.
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Gina Cammarata gets the first round of a Moderna COVID-19 vaccine at the Denver Indian Center, part of the second wave of prioritized shots in the city. Jan. 8, 2020.
All along the Front Range during the pandemic, demographics drew lines between sickness and health.
Longtime Denver physician Dr. Terri Richardson, with the Colorado Black Health Collaborative, said troubling trends emerged in the earliest days of the pandemic.
“Everything, you know, it goes along the social, economic and people of color lines,” said Richardson, a recently retired internist with Kaiser Permanente. “The stories are when it was the COVID infections and testing, when it was a vaccine, the maps all look the same. You could have just superimposed all the maps and they looked the same.”
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