Vaccine Equity Now!
For over a year, the COVID-19 pandemic in Massachusetts and across the nation has been characterized by dramatic racial inequities across cases, hospitalizations, and deaths. Now, with vaccines finally available, White residents are receiving the vast majority of the state’s vaccine doses. As of last week, White residents had received 12 times more doses than Black residents and 16 times more doses than Latinx residents. On February 17th a coalition of Civil Rights, Immigrant Justice, and Public Health Leaders launched the Vaccine Equity Now! Coalition, #VaccineEquityNow, on February 17 at a 1:30 online press conference at which they issued five...