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Framework for Equitable Allocation of COVID-19 Vaccine

This month, the National Academy of Medicine’s Committee on Equitable  Allocation of Vaccine for the Novel Coronavirus released its “Framework for  Equitable Allocation of COVID-19 Vaccine” Report that was commissioned by the  National Institute of Health and the CDC.

This report has significant implications for Black Americans and could (should) be used as a “checklist”  that minority health professionals can use to advocate for, and monitor, state  and local decisions and actions regarding COVID vaccine distribution.

The report offers a framework for equitable allocation of the COVID-19 vaccine that is built upon popular principles and recognizes the distinctive  characteristics of COVID-19 disease, including:

  • Rates of infection
  • Modes of transmission
  • Groups and individuals most susceptible to infection
  • Varying rates of severe illness and death among those groups

The Report contains the following specific elements that will be of relevance to  African American health professionals:

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An unambiguous declaration of the importance of HEALTH EQUITY in framing  vaccine allocation decisions.

In the United States and worldwide, the  COVID-19 pandemic has shed light on the pervasive impacts of social and structural  inequities in society. COVID-19 is having a disproportionate impact on people who  are already disadvantaged by virtue of their race and ethnicity, age, health status, residence, occupation, socioeconomic condition, or other contributing factors.

At a moment when racial inequality and discrimination are at the center of national  conversations in the United States, and a well-established source of poor health outcomes as well as the legacy of medical experimentation, these considerations  must be a critical component of COVID-19 vaccine allocation.

The report further states that “current evidence has shown how COVID-19  disproportionately affects particular racial and ethnic minority groups.

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CDC has compiled data by race and ethnicity on  the rates of COVID-19 cases, age-adjusted hospitalizations, and death.

Compared to  White, non-Hispanic person, black or African American (non-Hispanic) persons  had a case rate that was 2.6 times higher, a hospitalization rate that was 4.7 times  higher, and a death rate that was 2.1 times higher.

The Report highlights key lessons learned from prior mass

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