vaccine
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Massive Racial Disparity in Kentucky’s Vaccination Numbers Underscores the Enduring Power of Structural Racism
The racial inequities that have been brought into stark relief by the COVID-19 pandemic are again being made painfully apparent in the current phase of vaccine distribution. The vast disparity in the number of Black people and white people in Kentucky who have received vaccines—less than 19,000 for the former, according to WFPL, compared to…
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The New Colonial Frontier? Rich White People Traveled to Indigenous Community in Yukon and Schemed to Get COVID-19 Vaccine
If I ever say I am past being surprised by the depths of mendacity that people can exhibit, please quickly disabuse me of that motion. “Surprise” is an understatement for how I felt reading about a millionaire Canadian businessman and his actress wife who hired a private plane to fly into a small, isolated indigenous…
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Madea Gets the Vaccine: BET & Tyler Perry to Air COVID-19 Vaccine Special
BET & media mogul Tyler Perry are teaming up for a news special to help address COVID-19 vaccine concerns and fears within the Black community. Per a press release sent to The Root, Perry will sit down with top medical experts from Atlanta’s Grady Health System for one-on-one interviews in a half-hour program entitled COVID-19…
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New York’s Vaccine Rollout Doesn’t Include a Set Timeline for Prisons to Receive the Vaccine
Despite being among those most at-risk for contracting the virus, there is still no set plan on when New York prisons will receive the COVID-19 vaccine. The New York Times reports that while most states have listed incarcerated people in their vaccine rollout plans, New York’s plan doesn’t account for them at all. In October,…
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From the Uninsured to the Unhoused: Rep. Cori Bush Advocates COVID-19 Vaccine Education for Our Most Vulnerable
Cori Bush is a renaissance woman. Not only is the Missouri congresswoman the first Black woman to represent the state’s First Congressional District, she’s also a registered nurse, ordained pastor for the people of St. Louis, community organizer, single mother, and the first activist from the Black Lives Matter movement ever elected to the United…
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CDC Says New COVID-19 Strain Could Drive Increased Infections by March, While Government is Accused of Flubbing Vaccine Distribution Again
Officials say the new coronavirus strain that was first detected in the U.K. could drive an increased spread of the virus across the U.S. by March, which would mark a year since the pandemic was officially declared. On Friday, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention flagged that the new COVID-19 variant is more…
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Cautious, But Optimistic: How The Root Staff Is Approaching the New Year
The year 2020 was… a lot, largely in part to a global pandemic, the beginning of a long-awaited and necessary racial reckoning in this country, and an anxiety-inducing presidential election, to name a few. But that doesn’t mean there aren’t things to look forward to in the new year. The Root’s Editor-in-Chief Danielle Belton is…
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Vaccine Rollout Plagued By Slowdowns, Health Care Worker Refusals, Sabotaged Doses, and More
I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but 2021 won’t be that much different from 2020 if the country (and the world for that matter) doesn’t get its vaccine act together. As Britain moves forward with a questionable strategy of mixing different vaccine products, the new strain of COVID-19 first reported out of…