Should people of color, whose communities have been disproportionately stricken by COVID-19, get priority access to a vaccine? “The reason that race enters the equation is because of the increased risk for exposure to the coronavirus in the first place.'
With the promise of a COVID-19 vaccine in the distant future and positive signs from a recent Moderna MRNA, +1.32% trial, public-health professionals are mulling which groups of people should get early doses. And some are weighing a controversial idea: moving people of color, whose communities have been disproportionately stricken by the disease, toward the front of the queue.
In response to a MarketWatch request for comment on the Times’ report, CDC spokeswoman Jasmine Reed highlighted the agency’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices , “the federal advisory board, consisting of scientific and medical experts from across the country, that makes recommendations to the agency’s director on the routine use of vaccines.”
Monica Peek, a University of Chicago associate professor of medicine who researches health disparities, said she favored first vaccinating the populations that have been hardest hit by the coronavirus and are at increased risk for exposing others. “Race is just a proxy for the social conditions and the structural racism and interpersonal racism that puts people at increased risk for the coronavirus,” Peek said. “The reason that race enters the equation is because of the increased risk for exposure to the coronavirus in the first place — not because we’re saying that brown and Black people in and of themselves deserve extra benefits.”
She would also target jobs in which workers’ frequent movements help the virus spread more easily, such as meatpacking workers, delivery drivers, postal workers and transit workers. “It just so happens that a lot of these workers are Black and brown, not that there’s not non-minorities in these groups,” Goodman said.
In other words, “it’s stigmatizing to the African-American community to say we’re more risky because of who we are than what we do,” Benjamin said. Instead, he said, he would prioritize access based on risk factors such as occupation, susceptibility to disease, age and income, and identify health-care providers and delivery systems that are more likely to serve those populations.
In the present, Reddy said she would focus on implementing available and evidence-based harm-reduction methods, testing, and ensuring accessible and affordable health care in these communities. She would also provide “support for concurrent other disparities taking place and exacerbated by the fallout from the pandemic,” such as food, housing and child care, and connect people with other available safety-net programs, she said.
Peek points to J. Marion Sims, the so-called father of gynecology, who during the 19th century experimented on enslaved Black women without using anesthesia. There are more recent examples, she added, such as COVID-19 prison conditions for incarcerated Americans, who are still disproportionately Black and brown — and, reportedly, the use of Oregon prison labor to clean laundry from medical facilities.
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