You can walk around the neighborhoods of Kent Washington, that's south of Seattle, and

hear a lot of different languages.

Mandarin, Vietnamese, Korean, Spanish.

Leon Richardson is with the county health department.

He says they thought about the diversity in the area when they opened a mass vaccination

site at a local hockey arena this month.

We really had to leverage our staff on site that's bilingual, which is just indicative

of all the different cultures and populations that we're reaching.

The county chose this site specifically to reach those at highest risk of COVID-19, and

people who might have a hard time getting a vaccine through what they call traditional

healthcare systems.

They're trying to change the story about who has access to a vaccine.

Data from the Seattle area show that overall communities of color are getting vaccinated

at lower rates than whites.

This is for how that compares to nationwide data.

Turns out, we don't really know.

If we could at least just get the data, that gives us a starting point.

Dr. Joya Creer-Perry is with a group called the We Must Count Coalition, which is pushing

for states and the federal government to collect more data on race and ethnicity for vaccine

rollouts.

The CDC only has race or ethnicity data for about half of Americans who have been vaccinated.

What does exist show black and Latino people are way underrepresented.

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