HEALTH DISPARITIES AND THE COVID-19 VACCINE RESOURCES

THE COVID-19 VACCINE AND RACIAL INEQUITIES

• Latest Data on COVID-19 Vaccinations by Race/Ethnicity, Nambi Ndugga, Kaiser Family Foundation

• Racial Diversity within COVID-19 Vaccine Clinical Trials: Key Questions and Answers, Kaiser Family Foundation 

• Black Americans should face lower age cutoffs to qualify for a vaccine, Oni Blackstock and Uché Blackstock, Washington Post 

• How Racial Health Disparities Will Play Out in the Pandemic, Julia Craven, Slate Magazine

VACCINE DISTRIBUTION

• What Would It Take to Vaccinate the World Against Covid?, Peter S. Goodman, Apoorva Mandavilli, Rebecca Robbins and Matina Stevis-Gridneff, The New York Times

• The CDC maintains a data tracker on Covid-19, with recent particular attention to vaccinations. Graphs are included online, or can be made from its large and verified dataset, typically current to the week

• The World Should Treat Pandemics Like It Treats Chemical Weapons, Nina Schwalbe, Foreign Policy

• Apples and Oranges? Can second generation vaccines become as low cost as generic medicines? Aurelia Nguyen, Nina Schwalbe, Elsevier

• Gavi signs agreement with Moderna to secure doses on behalf of COVAX Facility, Gavi

• From Free Beer to $100 Payments, States Are Incentivizing COVID-19 Vaccination. Will It Work?, Jamie Ducharme, Time

• Vaccines in rural areas could hinder the end of the pandemic, CNN

• The high-risk group for whom Covid-19 vaccines may not work effectively, Advisory Board

REFORM WORK

• Advancing Health Equity, Dr. Uché Blackstock’s health care advocacy group

• The CDC’s new National Initiative to Address COVID-19 Health Disparities Among Populations at High-Risk and Underserved Communities, Including Racial and Ethnic Minority Populations and Rural Communities will offer grants to public health departments to improve testing and contact tracing capabilities

• Webpages of Covax and CureVac, at either end of the development and distribution pipeline

• Black doctors consortium

• Why vaccine passports may be critical for equity, PBS

• The Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) is a global partnership launched in 2017 to develop vaccines to stop future epidemics

• The Get1Give1 Campaign to help raise funds for the COVAX initiative is one option to consider for personal action to support financing of the global C19 vaccine delivery effort led by WHO, GAVI, CEPI and other partners

• Precision Public Health: What Is It? Muin J. Khoury, Center for Disease Control and Prevention

• Accelerating access to medicines in a changing world, World Health Organization, Or, 4 “a’s” and access to medicines

THE MODERNA VACCINE

• Professor Kenneth Chien about Moderna and the COVID-19-vaccine, Kenneth Chien, Karolinska Insitutet

• Cash-rich Moderna to begin first AstraZeneca trial under collab deal, Ben Adams, Fierce Biotech

• Moderna nabs a BARDA billion as its kick-starts late-stage pandemic vaccine test, Ben Adams, Fierce Biotech

• The Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines are very effective in real-world conditions at preventing infections, the C.D.C. reported, Gina Kolata, NYTimes

• A gamble pays off in ‘spectacular success’: How the leading coronavirus vaccines made it to the finish line, Carolyn Y. Johnson, The Washington Post

SOCIAL MEDIA AND VACCINE MISINFORMATION

• COVID-19 Vaccination Communication:Applying Behavioral and Social Science to Address Vaccine Hesitancy and Foster Vaccine Confidence, Wen-Ying Sylvia Chou, Caitlin E. Burgdorf, Anna Gaysynsky, Christine M. Hunter, National Institutes for Health

• Adapting and Extending a Typology to Identify Vaccine Misinformation on Twitter, Amelia Jamison, MAA, MPH, David A. Broniatowski, PhD, Michael C. Smith, PhD, Kajal S. Parikh BS, Adeena Malik BA, BS, Mark Dredze, PhD, and Sandra C. Quinn, PhD, AJPH Open Themed Research

• The Covid-19 Infodemic — Applying the Epidemiologic Model to Counter Misinformation, David Scales, M.D., Ph.D., Jack Gorman, M.D., and Kathleen H. Jamieson, Ph.D., The New England Journal of Medicine

• Social media and vaccine hesitancy: new updates for the era of COVID-19 and globalized infectious diseases, Neha Puri, Eric A. Coomes, Hourmazd Haghbayan & Keith Gunaratne, Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics

• Social Media and Vaccine Hesitancy, Steven Lloyd Wilson,Charles Wiysonge, BMJ Global Health