HIT Consultant June 17, 2021
The vaccine rollout is following patterns that are all too familiar — but we can change that
Newscasters sounded surprised when they announced for the first time that COVID-19 was disproportionately affecting Black, Indigenous, and people of color. As they presented graphs that showed higher rates of infection, hospitalization, and death, their tone was one of mild shock.
Similar surprise– and similar graphs– returned when they reported on the slowed, uneven vaccine rollout in poorer communities.
But this news did not surprise me at all, because I’ve spent my career working with patient-level health data. The steep upward curve on graphs that show worse health outcomes for BIPOC patients is a curve I know only too well stemming decades ago...
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