Sarah Silbiger/Getty Images US health systems must fund better outreach and education in communities of color, experts say. In healthcare deserts, more mobile clinics could help residents get vaccines. Since COVID-19 arrived in the US a year ago, the country's Black and Latino citizens have been hit hardest: their outsized representation as essential workers, along with other systemic factors, have left their communities more than two to three times more vulnerable to severe disease and death from the virus, overall. Now, as relief begins trickling out to Americans in the form of vaccines, the same communities appear to be at a disadvantage, once again.