Here’s how Colorado health officials aim to close the racial and socioeconomic coronavirus vaccine gap – By Jesse Paul (Colorado Sun) / Feb 2 2021
Gov. Jared Polis is opening up clinics at Black churches, Hispanic health care clinics and retirement communities that predominantly house people of color
Barbara Allen wanted a coronavirus vaccine. She just couldn’t find a place to get one.
The 74-year-old Aurora woman, who spent 42 years as a Denver Public Schools teacher, reached out to Kaiser Permanente and was also seeking information from King Soopers about where to get inoculated. She never quite got an answer.
Then, on Friday, Allen heard about a pop-up vaccination clinic at Dahlia Square Senior Apartments in northeast Denver, a facility that mostly houses people of color.
“That was yesterday and I’m here,” Allen said Saturday afternoon, beaming after receiving a dose of coronavirus vaccine a few minutes earlier. “It only took a day after I made the right contacts.”
State health officials and Gov. Jared Polis have been criticized in recent weeks over racial and socioeconomic disparities in how the coronavirus vaccine is being distributed across Colorado. In Denver, for instance, people living in wealthier, whiter neighborhoods have been more likely get vaccinated than their counterparts in poorer, more diverse city neighborhoods.
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