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Montgomery: New statistics indicate a disproportionately small number of Black people are getting vaccinations against the coronavirus, a trend the state’s top health official said Friday shows the need to increase immunization efforts in the minority community. While demographic data compiled by the state has big gaps, with the race of tens of thousands of vaccine recipients not reported, Dr. Scott Harris said the numbers that are available show about 55% of vaccines have gone to white people so far compared to about 11% for Blacks. By comparison, Alabama’s population is about 27% Black, census figures show. Factors including hesitancy to accept the vaccine and the demographic makeup of groups that were allowed to receive vaccines during the earliest rounds could help account for the difference, Harris said.
COVID-19: UK virus variant found in NH; Vt. will open shots to ages 70 and over
Modified: 2/12/2021 10:00:11 PM
CONCORD A more infectious coronavirus variant has been detected in a New Hampshire resident for the first time, state health officials said Friday.
An adult from Hillsborough county tested positive for the variant first found in the United Kingdom. The person had close contact with someone who had been diagnosed with COVID-19 after international travel, according to the Department of Health and Human Services.
Close household contacts were identified via contact tracing, and those involved have followed isolation, quarantine and testing guidance. Officials said they do not believe the case poses a risk to the community.