In the final month of the turbulent year 2020, Sandra Lindsay – a New York City critical care nurse, who also happens to be a Black woman – became the first American outside of clinical trials to receive the COVID-19 vaccine. Now, nearly two months later, Black Americans continue to die from the coronavirus at disproportionate rates, almost three times that of white Americans. Though Black people are impacted most severely by COVID, they make up less than 6% of the millions of Americans who’ve been vaccinated; Latino people account for only 11% of vaccinations in the country. In Charlottesville and the surrounding region, the statistics tell a similar story, and a chorus of community voices calls for change.
As of Feb. 5, the Blue Ridge Health District has administered 5,642 doses of the vaccine, according to a statement from Dr. Denise Bonds, director of the health district, in response to a Freedom of Information Act request from community advocate Myra Anderson. Of those vaccinated, 4,873 of those people were white and 426 were Black. Importantly, these numbers represent only the vaccines that BRHD has administered, not the total number of vaccines administered in the district; both the University of Virginia and Sentara Martha Jefferson hospital systems are coordinating their own vaccination efforts.
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