Vaccine and COVID-19 Trajectories: Equal vaccine rates do not reduce inequality in COVID-19 rates
| Autor: | Kate H. Choi, Patrick A. Denice, Sagi Ramaj |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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| Popis: | Researchers and public health officials posit that vaccine equity holds the key to ending the pandemic. Yet, most prior work on vaccine equity focuses on vaccine hesitancy and seldom compares the vaccine trajectories of neighborhoods with varying COVID-19 levels. Notably scarce are also studies that examine the extent to which vaccination helps reduce inequalities in the prevalence of COVID-19. Using administrative data from the City of Toronto, we compare the vaccine trajectories of neighborhoods with low, moderate, and high COVID-19 rates. We also examine whether disparities in COVID-19 rates by a neighborhood’s COVID-19 rates as vaccinations have increased. By mid-June 2021, differences in vaccination rates by the neighborhoods’ COVID-19 levels are small. The vaccination rollout has only had a small impact on disparities in COVID-19 rates across neighborhoods. Equality in vaccination rates is by no means a silver bullet to reduce inequalities in COVID-19 infections across neighborhoods with varying socio-demographic characteristics. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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