{"id":22722,"date":"2021-03-14T04:57:42","date_gmt":"2021-03-14T04:57:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arknews.org\/?p=22722"},"modified":"2022-07-27T15:38:07","modified_gmt":"2022-07-27T20:38:07","slug":"covid-vaccinations-lag-in-minority-communities-state-data-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arknews.org\/index.php\/2021\/03\/14\/covid-vaccinations-lag-in-minority-communities-state-data-shows\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID vaccinations lag in minority communities, state data shows"},"content":{"rendered":"

Although Arkansas\u2019s population is 16% Black, only about 9% of all COVID-19 vaccine doses administered in the state have gone to Black people. The state is 8% Latino, but under 4% of shots given have been administered to Latinos. Out of the roughly 12,000 Marshallese people who live in Arkansas, just 705 had received a vaccine as of Saturday.<\/span>Those numbers, retrieved from <\/span>the Arkansas Department of Health\u2019s COVID dashboard<\/span><\/a> on Friday, are consistent with trends elsewhere. <\/span>A New York Times analysis<\/span><\/a> of state-level data from March 5 showed COVID vaccination rates among Black and Latino people in all of Arkansas\u2019s neighbors lagged well behind rates for whites.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Arkansas first began publishing demographic data on vaccinations last week, later than most states. It is also incomplete: As of Saturday, the state lacked information about the race of the recipient for more than 10% of shots administered.<\/span><\/p>\n

The pace of vaccinations in Arkansas is accelerating, with thousands of shots given every day at pharmacies, hospitals and mass clinics across the state. Robert Ator, the retired Arkansas National Guard colonel overseeing the state\u2019s distribution plan, said on Tuesday that the state is now receiving around 92,000 doses of vaccine each week. Over 525,000 people in the state had received at least one dose as of Saturday, and about 291,000 were fully vaccinated. (Most of the vaccines administered thus far require two separate doses to be fully effective; some providers began receiving a new, one-dose version last week.)<\/span><\/p>\n

But even as the flow of vaccines ramps up, white people seem to be getting shots faster than people of color. Health department spokeswoman Danyelle McNeill said there were multiple reasons for the disparities.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThey include barriers in access to the vaccines, such as lack of internet access, computers, or transportation,\u201d she wrote in an email. \u201cThey also include hesitancy in receiving the vaccine because of mistrust in the health system as well as a lack of accurate information.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Last year, when the vaccine rollout was in its early stages, <\/span>some national surveys<\/span><\/a> indicated a large percentage of Black people were reluctant to get a shot. That appears to be changing: <\/span>A recent NPR \/ Marist poll<\/span><\/a> found similar hesitancy rates among Black and white Americans, with a somewhat higher rate among Latinos. (The poll found a much larger gap by partisan affiliation, with almost half of Republican men saying they were not planning to get vaccinated.)<\/span><\/p>\n

Access continues to be a problem, especially for people who lack internet access or who do not speak English fluently. The bulk of vaccines in Arkansas are distributed through individual hospitals and pharmacies, many of which do not have translators and often require online signups. (Last week, Governor Hutchinson announced the creation of a new state hotline for vaccine seekers, 1-800-985-6030, which includes bilingual assistance options.) People of color also may be less likely to have flexible work hours, making it harder to schedule an appointment.<\/span><\/p>\n

Along with hesitancy and access issues, the disparities may also be driven by the fact that older Arkansans \u2014 who were among the first groups eligible for the vaccine \u2014 are simply more likely to be white. The state\u2019s population as a whole is about 79% white, but the number increases to 88% for people over age 65.<\/span><\/p>\n

That is partly because some populations that are relatively new to the state, such as the Latino and Marshallese communities, tend to be younger on average. But it is also because life expectancies are lower among Black Arkansans, the result of health disparities fueled by generations of systemic racism. About 1 in 6 of all Arkansans are Black \u2014 but among people age 65 and up, only about 1 in 9 are Black.<\/span><\/p>\n

As a result, only about 7% of the COVID shots given to people over age 65 have gone to Black residents, according to a health department PowerPoint slide from March 5 provided in response to a Freedom of Information Act request.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThere's a whole lot fewer Black people who survive to live above 70,\u201d said Dr. Gary Wheeler, a a retired infectious disease specialist and former health department official who is familiar with the vaccination data. \u201cIn poor counties in the Delta, the life expectancy is 10 years shorter for Black people than it is than it is for largely white counties in Northwest Arkansas. This was one of the first data points where I went, \u2018Oh my God, that really does make a huge difference.\u2019 \u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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Sources: U.S. Census 2019 population estimates retrieved from census.gov, 3\/13\/21; ADH analysis of Census data<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The state is currently in <\/span>Phase 1-B<\/span><\/a> of its vaccination plan, meaning eligibility is limited to people 65 and older, educators, child care workers, manufacturing and food processing workers, first responders and certain other groups. (Phase 1-A, the first phase, targeted health care workers and residents and staff of nursing homes.) In the coming weeks, the state is expected to move to Phase 1-C, which includes people under 65 with certain underlying health conditions and workers in various other sectors.<\/span><\/p>\n

Michelle Smith, the health department\u2019s director of the office of health equity, acknowledged that Black people make up a smaller share of the 65-plus group. \u201cThat's why it's so critical to open up the phases \u2014 so that more of that population is eligible,\u201d she said.<\/span><\/p>\n

(Racial disparities persist among seniors even on a proportional basis, according to a slide provided by the health department<\/a>. As of Thursday, 25% of white residents age 65 and up were fully vaccinated, compared to just 16% of Black residents and 12% of Latinos in the same age group. The gap was smaller among those who had received their first dose.)<\/span><\/p>\n

However, opening up eligibility too quickly could also impede the state\u2019s efforts to address equity concerns. Ator, the state\u2019s vaccine distribution chief, said the overall supply of doses remains limited. If too many eligible people are seeking shots at the same time, that could make it harder to allocate doses for specific communities and events.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt's very simple \u2014 if you open it up, and the demand is [high] in every corner of the state, then you have less capacity by way of supply to address these needs,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n

Currently, he said, the state dedicates about 70% of the vaccine it receives each week to provide a baseline amount of doses to pharmacies and hospitals. The other 30% is allocated on a rolling basis \u2014 some for mass events, some for specific workforces, some for additional doses to providers in specific places.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt allows [us] to dedicate doses for the minority community,\u201d he said. \u201cIt allows [us] to facilitate mass events without disrupting that consistent flow of vaccine going out to all the different counties. What we're trying to do is provide a nice, consistent answer for how we're going about this. And if you just open it wide open, I mean, it becomes the Hunger Games.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Since January, Smith said, her office has organized \u201cstrike teams\u201d to quickly deliver large volumes of doses to minority communities with lagging rates of vaccination.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe look at where counties have the lowest percentages of African-Americans or Latinos receiving the vaccine, and we put together a mass vaccination clinic,\u201d she said. With the help of local leaders and medical providers, the health department has organized 10 such events since the end of January, administering around 6,000 doses. This week, the department also began scheduling large vaccination events at local health units around the state.<\/span><\/p>\n

On Friday, the city of Pine Bluff held its second mass clinic at the Pine Bluff Convention Center, in partnership with the health department and Doctor\u2019s Orders, a local pharmacy. Mary Liddell, the city\u2019s community outreach coordinator, said a team of some 135 volunteers and staff administered more than 750 shots over the course of the day.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThis is very much needed. With the pharmacists, there\u2019s just so many that they can take in,\u201d she said, speaking to a reporter between shifts at the Friday clinic. \u201cFor us to set this up in the convention center, it\u2019s going to reach the masses, so to speak.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Ator said Jefferson County, where Pine Bluff is located, has been a success story. \u201cWe have worked really, really hard down in that area,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s not good enough just to dump vaccine in a county. You have to work with community leaders \u2014\u00a0 they're the ones that give you the access to that community, to where [people] trust and are comfortable with what we\u2019re doing.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Some advocates, though, say the state is falling behind elsewhere. Mireya Reith, the director of Arkansas United, an immigrant advocacy organization, said Latino, Marshallese and other minority communities are in need of help with the signup process.<\/span><\/p>\n

The creation of a hotline with a Spanish language option was \u201cdefinitely an improvement,\u201d Reith said, \u201cbut that\u2019s not where people get information.\u201d What\u2019s needed, she said, is funding for navigators to help people sign up for appointments directly.<\/span><\/p>\n

Last summer, when coronavirus cases and deaths surged among Latino and Marshallese residents of Northwest Arkansas, <\/span>the state began directing federal relief money<\/span><\/a> toward testing, contact tracing and other services in those communities. But, Reith said, much of that federal money disappeared at the end of 2020 and has yet to be replaced.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe had a lot of help when the numbers went up, but it's like the state just keeps waiting for the worst case scenario before taking action,\u201d she said.<\/span><\/p>\n

This reporting is courtesy of <\/span><\/i>the Arkansas Nonprofit News Network<\/span><\/i><\/a>, an independent, nonpartisan news project dedicated to producing journalism that matters to Arkansans.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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