Prioritising covid vaccines for people of colour may have saved lives

Black and Indigenous people and people of colour are more at risk from covid-19, and new modelling suggests that prioritising vaccines based on race or neighbourhood in addition to age could have led to fewer deaths

Prioritising covid vaccines for people of colour may have saved lives

By Clare Wilson

A vaccination session  astatine  an simple  schoolhouse  successful  Louisville, Kentucky, successful  April.

A vaccination session successful Louisville, Kentucky, successful April

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Prioritising radical of colour for the covid-19 vaccines erstwhile they were successful abbreviated proviso would person prevented much deaths than rolling retired the vaccine purely by property groups, a US modelling survey suggests.

When the coronavirus vaccines were successful constricted proviso earlier this year, US authorities, on with astir high-income countries, advised offering them archetypal to healthcare workers, attraction location residents and past to radical successful property order. Age is 1 of the biggest determinants of hazard from covid-19, but US and UK …

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