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Vermont to Give Minority Residents Vaccine Priority - KFF Health News

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States have tried with limited success to get covid vaccines to people of color, who have been disproportionately killed and hospitalized by the virus. It can be republished for free. Starting Thursday, Vermont explicitly gave Black adults and people from other minority communities priority status for vaccinations. It follows Montana, which in January announced that Native Americans and other people of color, because they are at higher risk of complications from covid-19, would be allowed to receive the vaccine. All Black, Indigenous residents and other people of color who are permanent Vermont residents and 16 or older are eligible for the vaccine. It will be a short-term advantage, since Vermont opens covid inoculations to all adults April 19. Still, Vermont health officials say they hope the change will lower the risk for people of color, who are nearly twice as likely as whites to end up in the hospital with covid-19. “It is unacceptable that this disparity remains for this populat

[UPDATED at 5 p.m. ET] States have tried with limited success to get covid vaccines to people of color, who have been disproportionately killed and hospitalized by the virus. Starting Thursday, Vermont explicitly gave Black adults and people from other minority communities priority status for vaccinations. It follows Montana, which in January announced that Native Americans and other people of color, because they are at higher risk of complications from covid-19, would be allowed to receive the vaccine. All Black, Indigenous residents and other people of color who are permanent Vermont…

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