March 26, 2021
Melanie Richardson, right, co-founder and executive director of childcare education nonprofit TrainingGround, was one of more than 50 scholars and practitioners who developed grant proposals as part of Count the Costs Research Weekend, a workshop aimed at helping researchers quantify the effects of racial inequity in the U.S.
Researchers from Tulane and other universities came together in March for a three-day workshop aimed at helping scholars quantify the effects of racial inequity in the United States.
Hosted by the Albert Lepage Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at Tulane’s A. B. Freeman School of Business, Count the Costs Research Weekend brought together scholars from a variety of academic disciplines to develop research proposals that investigate the barriers that BIPOC (Black, Indigenous and People of Color) experience in our society, the economic impact of those barriers and viable approaches to addressing them. Those who pa
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John Bel Edwards reversed Republican
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Brannon
As of mid-February, the CDC says of those who have received the first dose of vaccine, nearly two-thirds were white, about 63%, and 6% were Black. Now the CDC only has demographics for about half of those who ve gotten the vaccine so far. Did those statistics surprise you at all?
LaVeist
Not really. I mean, there are several challenges here. Really three challenges that that we ve been facing. One is that there just isn t enough vaccine. So just having enough to meet the demand has been a problem. Determining exactly how to allocate that between the nursing homes and outside of nursing homes has been an issue because we do have some excess in the nursing homes, but not enough to really meet the demand outside. So that s one issue. The other issue we have is that the vaccine distribution locations that you would normally use – hospitals, pharmacies, clinics, things like that – those facilities are not equally distributed throughout the country. And the country is dramat