Health agencies work to ensure communities of color are vaccinated as soon as possible Health agencies work to ensure communities of color are vaccinated as soon as possible and last updated 2020-12-17 18:15:35-05 KANSAS CITY, Mo. â Plans for the COVID-19 vaccine rollout beyond health care workers is a work in progress, but 41 Action News talked to health agencies who are keeping communities of color in mind. "We have a wide representation by tribal organizations, ethnic and racial minority groups," said Dr. Lee Norman, secretary of the Kansas Department of Health and Environment. "Different socioeconomic groups and beyond that, faith leaders, medical bioethicists to look at it with many sets of optics."