Wealthy residents received a disproportionate share of vaccines in this Texas county

Wealthy residents received a disproportionate share of vaccines in this Texas county

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Dallas officials are making changes after three high-income postal codes received a disproportionate share of the county’s first COVID-19 vaccines.



A COVID-19 vaccine is administered at a mass vaccination site within the Esports Stadium Arlington & Expo Center in Arlington, Texas, January 11, 2021.


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A COVID-19 vaccine is administered at a mass vaccination site within the Esports Stadium Arlington & Expo Center in Arlington, Texas, January 11, 2021.

Of the 3,071 doses distributed at the vaccination site in Fair Park, 461 doses were for people in three high-income postal codes, while people in two postal codes with the highest number of COVID-19 infections received a total of 49 doses, from according to WFAA, an affiliate of Dallas ABC.

Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins said a link to the nomination system that was shared between people in North Dallas allowed them to skip the line.

“We now have a naming system that cannot be hacked,” said Jenkins. “The people who are receiving consultations are the most vulnerable.”

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In addition to the naming system crash, more people from wealthy areas are signing up for the county’s waiting list, which now has 300,000 names. Jenkins attributed the disparity to existing inequalities: compared to high-income people, low-income people are less likely to have reliable transportation, Internet access or equal access to information.

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There are also signs that racial disparities, which emerged repeatedly during the pandemic, are already present in the way the vaccine is being distributed. In neighboring Tarrant County, Texas, which is 30% Hispanic, only 5% of those vaccinated are Hispanic.



a group of people sitting in a chair: An injection of COVID-19 is administered at a mass vaccination site within the Esports Stadium Arlington & Expo Center in Arlington, Texas, January 11, 2021.


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A COVID-19 injection is administered at a mass vaccination site within the Esports Stadium Arlington & Expo Center in Arlington, Texas, January 11, 2021.

An analysis of the Kaiser Health News published this week found that in the 16 states that released racial data on the initial distribution of the vaccine, black Americans are being vaccinated at a lower rate than white Americans, even despite online health professionals. from the front are typically racist diverse cohort.

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Texas has administered 1.1 million vaccines so far, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which translates to 4,001 vaccines for every 100,000 residents.

As of Tuesday, Texas had reported 2.1 million infections and 32,711 deaths from COVID-19 since the pandemic began, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.

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