Health ‘We don’t want to fall into complacency’: State numbers show disparities in vaccine distribution between races, ethnicities March 16, 2021 9:43 PM Madalyn O'Neill Updated: “Communities of color have been disproportionately affected by COVID-19,” said Ajay Sethi, a UW-Madison associate professor of population health sciences. As of Tuesday, about 24% of white Dane County residents had gotten at least one dose compared to 10% of Black people, 12% of Asian people and 23% of American Indian people in the county. The numbers across the state show similar disparities. “There’s a history of that, but we don’t want to fall into complacency,” Sethi said.