Advocates call for improved COVID-19 vaccination process in Black, Hispanic communities FacebookTwitterEmail People wait in a line for a COVID-19 vaccine shot Monday, Jan. 4, 2021, near the Bayou City Event Center in Houston.Jon Shapley, Houston Chronicle / Staff photographer As the COVID-19 vaccine continues to make its way around Texas, advocates are concerned for communities of color. Data from the Texas Department of State Health Services has shown that the virus is deadlier for people of color, with more than half of the deaths in Texas occurring among the Hispanic or Black communities. Now, advocates are concerned that the state's designated vaccination sites are being placed in more affluent areas that will give the white population greater access to the medicine.