Some Health Workers Can't Get a Vaccine

Prognosis: Misconception

Bloomberg

Health & Fitness, Science

4.1 • 838 Ratings

🗓️ 1 February 2021

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Since Pfizer and Moderna vaccine shipments in the U.S. began in mid-December, the priority has been doctors, nurses and other professionals likely to come in contact with the novel coronavirus. But health care workers who aren’t with hospitals and major health systems say they’re being overlooked. Elise Young reports that thousands of health-care workers are still seeking vaccinations even as states and cities open eligibility to people far removed from the pandemic’s front line.

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0:34.5	Welcome to Prognosis. I'm Laura Carlson. It's day 324 since coronavirus was declared a global pandemic.
0:43.8	Today's main story, health care workers were among the first priority for vaccinations in the U.S.
0:50.7	But thousands of doctors, nurses, and other health professionals say that if they're not affiliated with major hospitals, they're likely to miss out.
1:01.3	But first, here's what happened in virus news today. New York City broke down its COVID-19 vaccination data by ethnicity for the first time.
1:23.3	That revealed profound racial disparities in who's getting the shots.
1:29.3	White residents made up almost half of the people who have received at least one dose,
1:35.0	despite consisting of only a third of the population.
1:39.8	Latinos, 29% of the city, only accounted for 15% of those vaccinated.
1:46.2	The lowest ratio was among black residents.
1:50.1	Even though they make up almost a quarter of the city's population,
1:53.2	they only accounted for 11% of those vaccinated.
1:58.7	The percentage of Asians among all vaccinated residents was 15%, similar to their representation
2:04.9	in the city.
2:07.0	A top health advisor to President Joe Biden warned Sunday that the highly transmissible UK variant
2:13.3	of the coronavirus will likely become the dominant strain in the U.S.
2:19.1	Michael Osterholm, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy
2:23.4	at the University of Minnesota, said on NBC's Meet the Press that the nation's health
2:28.8	care system must prepare for a surge in serious cases, such as the one experienced recently in England. Finally,
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