Racial equity in access to vaccines
February 17, 2021 By Michele Learner We know that COVID-19 is not “equal opportunity.” People who contract the virus and people who die are disproportionately people of color, particularly Black people. The data available so far illustrate clearly how the pandemic affects different racial groups differently. A recent Bread for the World Institute resource, “Racially Equitable Responses to COVID-19,” explains how systemic racism causes such inequitable outcomes. Some of the aspects of racism that most affect both hunger and COVID-19 are job segregation, residential segregation, inequ...
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