Can Vaccine Allocation Plans Legally Respond to Racial Disparities?
Document Type
Article
Year
2021
Citation Information
Govind Persad, Can Vaccine Allocation Plans Legally Respond to Racial Disparities?, (2021), available at https://scholar.law.colorado.edu/faculty-articles/2015.
Abstract
Recently, Missouri expanded phase 2 vaccination eligibility with the goal of addressing disproportionate COVID-19 impacts.
Specifically, Missouri’s policy applies to “Disproportionately Affected Populations,” which is further defined as: “Populations at increased risk of acquiring or transmitting COVID-19, with emphasis on racial/ethnic minorities not otherwise included in 1B.”
This presents a much-debated and often misunderstood question I explore in a forthcoming University of Illinois Law Review article: can COVID-19 vaccine allocation legally recognize the outsized burden of cases and deaths that racial/ethnic minority communities have borne during the pandemic?