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Black patients account for about 21 percent of vaccine recipients at UAB and 11 percent statewide, but nearly 30 percent of recipients tracked by the Alabama Department of Public Health didn't identify a race
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Ashley Archer, a pregnant, 33-year-old Texas financial adviser, and her husband have been cautious about the coronavirus. They work from home, go out mostly just to get groceries and wear masks whenever they are in public.
But when a friend lost power amid the winter storms that have left millions of Texans without heat in freezing temperatures, the couple had to make a decision: Should they take on additional risk to help someone in need?
Archer said they didn’t hesitate. They took her husband’s best friend into their suburban Dallas home.
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For months inside an Alabama ICU, Dr. Anand Iyer has worked to mitigate the downstream effects of COVID-19 to often heartbreaking results. Intubating older adults, putting them on the mechanical ventilators, watching them die. It’s terrible, Iyer said. That drives the push on the upstream, what can we do to bring a sense of urgency about ending this pandemic as soon as possible?
The roll-out of vaccines across the country is welcome sight amid a life-altering pandemic and feels like a light at the end of a tunnel. But as vaccine doses slowly trickle down through at-risk populations, Iyer and others remain concerned about gaps in vaccine access.
Vaccine Efforts Effective In Underrepresented Communities: UAB - Birmingham, AL - UAB reports it has given almost 21 percent of its vaccine allocation to Black individuals, a better rate than almost every state.