Vaccination information flow, access, website glitches, transportation, skepticism. A disproportionate number of white people are being vaccinated for Covid and in some cases the wealthy navigating urban areas offering shots. It’s an early pattern revealing a gulf in regions hit the hardest–cities–among black and brown residents.
WASHINGTON–As soon as this city began offering Covid vaccines to residents 65 and older, George Jones, whose nonprofit agency runs a medical clinic, noticed something striking.
“Suddenly our clinic was full of white people,” said Mr. Jones, the head of Bread for the City, which provides services to the poor. “We’d never had that before. We serve people who are disproportionately African-American.”
Similar scenarios are unfolding around the country as states expand eligibility for the shots. Although low-income communities of color have been hit hardest by Covid-19, health officials in many cities say that people from wealthier, largely white neighborhoods have been flooding vaccination appointment systems and taking an outsized share of the limited supply.
People in underserved neighborhoods have been tripped up by a confluence of obstacles, including registration phone lines and websites that can take hours to navigate, and lack of transportation or time off from jobs to get to appointments. But also, skepticism about the shots continues to be pronounced in Black and Latino communities, depressing sign-up rates.
Closer to home this from the CT Mirror:
Connecticut has administered a first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine to 45% of the state’s residents 75 and older, but several major cities have some of the lowest vaccination rates in the state, according to an analysis by the Connecticut Mirror.
There are seven communities that have yet to vaccinate 25 percent of their elderly population, including three cities: Bridgeport, New Britain and Waterbury. Smaller communities in the northeast and northwest corners of the state, where officials have acknowledged “vaccine coverage issues,” also post lower rates.
The Mirror analyzed vaccine dosage data through 9 a.m. on Feb. 1 on a town-by-town basis. State officials are using the data to identify areas with coverage issues and assess whether they need to open more clinics or do more mobile clinics, particularly in urban communities.
I don’t know who wrote this, but it’s bullshit. “Skepticism about the shots continues to be pronounced in Black and Latino communities.
That’s a false narrative being pushed by white America to justify NOT VACCINATING Black’s and Latinos. When one person says they don’t want the vaccine that narrative is subscribed to the whole race. Black folks are not a monolith where one person speaks for the whole race. This narrative that Black’s don’t want the vaccine is being fueled by racism and discrimination because I know a myriad of Black’s that want it and are just waiting for our turn. Are there some Black’s that don’t want the vaccine, hell yes! Are there some Latinos that don’t want it, hell yes! Are there some white people that don’t want it, hell yes and yet WHITE people are being the vaccine in much higher numbers than Black’s and Latinos across the country. Governor Lamont, you couldn’t have won your election without those two ethnic groups that you are ignoring now, who’s lives you are stepping on every day, but you know that because YOU have never talked about those statistics at your daily press conference.
DD, that sentence is from NYT article. Skepticism exists because information flow from the state is not reaching the most who need it. (Do they care about us?) Also, on a local level more needs to be done from top to bottom: mayor’s office, City Council, Health Department, etc. This is the most critical outreach arguably in our lifetime. Elected representatives must retail vaccination information as if they were on the ballot.
Wow. I wish I said that. Well come to think about it I DID!!!
Except I blamed the City Council and not the mayor.
To me, the City Council is up for election this year and not the Mayor, the City Clerk or the Town Clerk.
They should be using their stipend money as a PSA and mailing info out to the voters. Get the message out to the public NOW and don’t wait until it’s too late.
And don’t wait for Aidee to say is OK. Just do it.
Don, Bridgeport doesn’t even have a Health Director and who knows when they will get one but State Senator Dennis Bradley and Bridgeport City Council President Aidee Nieves and the City Council are more concern about flavored tobacco instead of a vaccine and a Health Director to help with the vaccine getting to those who need it most.
Vaxx the Port!
Vape Tammy Pappa!
“They should be using their stipend money as a PSA and mailing info out to the voters”
Bob,this isn’t happening,the stipends have turned into the council members salaries at this point.I would love to see line item reports on how they spent their stipends this past year.,I mean every meeting has been remote.I would imagine every one of them got new Laptops with a portion of their stipends..
What they are waiting for is Nestor to find the money and Mayor Joe to approve it then they will use this new source of money to plaster their face in a district by district mailing of the same message different pictures.
Oh my. More white people are getting the Covid vaccine. It must be white privilege! This is systemic racism!
Maybe more white people are getting off their rear ends and being responsible.
Another example of perpetuation of the victim status.
Tom White, you got this one right, I’m sure that everybody notice how the ex-president never mention anything about the high rate that blacks and Hispanics had COVID-19 and the fact that he started not to be involved at all with his own committee in fighting COVID-19 or testing, contact tracing and vaccination.
Finally Tom (being) White, you are absolutely correct this is being fueled by White Privilege and Systematic Racism. Studies have found that in 16 states that were explored whites received up to four times the amount of vaccine as Black’s, yet Black’s were three times more likely to catch and die from Covid-19 than whites. Oh yea one other thing, 45 really won the election and had it stolen from him. 🤣 🤣
Just look at this piss poor running of COVID-19 vacinations by Mayor Ganim and the city.
“Bridgeport city employees mistakenly registered for COVID vaccines”
Brian Lockhart Updated: Feb. 3, 2021 1:07 p.m.
BRIDGEPORT — An unknown number of municipal staffers received their COVID-19 vacinations earlier than they should have after being signed up by the city in early January.
Mayor Joe Ganim’s office on Tuesday confirmed that, in addition to 700 emergency responders and healthcare workers, another 1,100 city employees volunteered to be registered with the federal Vaccine Administration Management System, or VAMS.
Subsequently those individuals who volunteered, once signed up with VAMS, should have received emails inviting them to schedule vaccine appointments.
https://www.ctinsider.com/news/article/Bridgeport-city-employees-mistakenly-registered-15919745.php
Oh, give me an f’n break.
1,100 city employees volunteered to be registered in VAMS???
And suddenly anyone who volunteered could be miraculously scheduled to be vaccinated!
Well golly miss Molly. I thought I was just volunteering in case there were any left overs.
Again, Aidee why don’t you spend your time looking at obviously misrepresenting the truth so as to skip the line instead of banning flavored tobacco.
Why don’t you make public the names and positions of all the city employees who volunteered to get the shot ahead of people who are supposed to?
Why don’t you call an the state’s attorney to launch a full investigation of this abuse and to punish to the full extent of the law?
Afraid you might step on some toes? Get some people bad at you? Make a few enemies?
Or would you be on the list???