Medically Necessary: Making the vaccine supply chain work for communities of color

A patient receives a COVID-19 vaccine at Neighborhood Health in Nashville, Tennessee. (Credit: Neighborhood Health)

This is an excerpt from the February 23, 2021 edition of Medically Necessary, a health care supply chain newsletter. Subscribe here.

The problem: Americans of color are receiving the vaccine at far lower rates than white Americans, even though people of color are more likely to get COVID-19. The supply chain is part of the problem.

  • “Our system of allocation assumes there’s a level playing field, but there’s not,” Monica Peek, University of Chicago Medicine physician and health care disparities...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/making-the-vaccine-supply-chain-work-for-communities-of-color

Medically Necessary: Winter storm delays, FEMA vaccination sites, Supply chain for superspreaders

A FEMA vaccination site in Los Angeles. (Credit: FEMA/Alexis Hall)

Good afternoon. Medically Necessary is a newsletter by Matt Blois about the health care supply chain — how we get drugs, devices and medical supplies to health care providers and patients.

Winter storm temporarily slows vaccine rollout

A car drives through a winter storm in Dallas. (Credit: Matthew T Rader, MatthewTRader.com, License CC-BY-SA)

A massive winter storm is slowing the distribution of COVID-19 vaccines across much of the U.S.

Mass vaccinations canceled: The storm forced cancellations of...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/medically-necessary:-winter-storm-delays-fema-vaccination-sites-supply-chain-for-superspreaders

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