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Holes in Va.'s race, ethnicity reporting for vaccines leave doubts about equitable distribution | State and Regional News


By SABRINA MORENO
Richmond Times-Dispatch
RICHMOND — Virginia has not recorded the race or ethnicity of more than half of the people who have received the coronavirus vaccine, undercutting a critical pillar in marshaling resources to hard-hit populations.
There’s little evidence to show that will change, even as the state pledges an equitable distribution of a limited supply that researchers say is nearly impossible to execute without accounting for these demographics.
The already questionable success of asking its most skeptical and underserved communities for trust lies in incomplete state figures that show that when race has been recorded, 71% of those vaccinated have been white. Whites account for less than half of COVID-19 hospitalizations, but make up 59% of health care workers prioritized in the first phase of distribution. ....

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Strain on hospitals intensifies in Virginia; VCU Health deploys surge capacity plans


Northam urges Virginians to help stem the COVID-19 surge as hospitalizations reach new peak
A swamped ICU and escalating COVID-19 crisis forced a turning point at VCU Health last week: The Richmond area’s anchor hospital formally deployed the next level of its surge capacity plan, signaling the end of normal operations to prepare for significant strain on its resources.
In Virginia’s hard-hit Southwest, a front-line physician at Ballad Health said weeks and weeks of escalating numbers are threatening a “second pandemic”: the physical and mental exhaustion of its workforce.
At hospitals across the state, a workforce firm is helping backfill 926 health care jobs, three-fourths of which are for the care of the state’s sickest patients. ....

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