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Originally published on February 6, 2021 8:02 am
As Missouri’s COVID-19 vaccine rollout geared up, the state left the work of making sure Black and Latino communities got equitable access to nine regional groups.
The theory was simple a regional organization would know its area best and would understand how to reach at-risk community members.
But more than a month into the rollout, four of those regional teams aren’t up and running and just 5% of the doses have gone to Black Missourians.
In the state, Kansas City has the highest number of vaccine deserts in areas that are particularly medically vulnerable, according to an analysis by Deloitte. When Kansas City’s implementation team gets started and it still has not, even this far into the vaccine rollout it will span 13 counties and cover more than a million people.
KC-area doctors separate COVID-19 vaccine fact from fiction during panel
Forum in conjunction with Black History Month
KC-area doctors separate COVID-19 vaccine fact from fiction
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. â A group of local doctors took part in a public forum to discuss the importance of the vaccines, especially as it relates to Kansas City-area minority communities, during a panel discussion Thursday in conjunction with Black History Month. There s a lot of myths and concerns and fears about the vaccine, Dr. Jannette Berkley-Patton with the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine said.
To calm those fears, the panel conducted a virtual discussion that tried to debunk myths many people may have over this vaccine.
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Truman Medical Centers RN Raechel Blades gives Grace Crain her first injection of the Pfizer BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine on Jan. 26 at Morning Star Missionary Baptist Church.
Some local health departments say that the system created to track vaccines doesn t show them county demographic information.
Through much of the COVID-19 pandemic, Black and Latino people have suffered disproportionately from the virus, and health experts have worried that these communities could struggle with low vaccination rates unless steps are taken to ensure fair access.
Missouri’s vaccination campaign has been underway for more than a month, but analysis by KCUR found that the state’s data on who’s getting vaccines is incomplete and health departments in some of the state’s largest counties don’t have access to local data that would show if the vaccine is being equitably distributed.