Month: February 2021

USA Today, February 12, 2021. People of color have suffered most from COVID-19. Now that vaccines are here, they are far less likely to have received a first dose for many of the same reasons. “If pharmacies are not available in specific neighborhoods, specifically majority-minority, majority-Black or -Hispanic neighborhoods in Chicago and elsewhere, you’re going…Continue Reading ‘Just not equal at all’: Vaccine rollout in Chicago a microcosm of racial disparities nationwide

The Guardian, February 5, 2021. Non-white Chicagoans, who makeup a majority of Covid-19 cases, have struggled to get the vaccine due to technology barriers and ‘pharmacy deserts’. Dima Qato, associate professor at the University of Southern California School of Pharmacy and senior fellow at the Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics, has extensively studied…Continue Reading How Chicago’s vaccine rollout is inhibited by longstanding inequality