On this MLK Day, we must commit to eliminating health disparities. The 1st step to that is measuring and tracking disparities. Towards that, we've put together a dashboard to track geographic and demographic disparities in US COVID-19 vaccination: vaccinetracking.us (1/)
Denominators matter. So, we aim to track vaccination coverage (as a proportion of population size)for total populations & racial, ethnic + age groups. Tracking vaccination coverage will allow us to track our path to herd immunity, and to quantify inequities in vaccination (2/)
Geographic patterns of vaccination coverage are key to reaching vaccine herd immunity goals. Our goal is to include county-level data for as many states as make that data available (currently only 8). We will update the dashboard as more data becomes available. (3/)
Systemic racism is already on display in the COVID vaccination data. For example, 4 times as many white Pennsylvanians have been vaccinated as Black Pennsylvanians (after correcting for population sizes). (4/)
Transparency in vaccine uptake is key to removing these disparities, but only a fraction of US states are currently reporting vaccination by race. We will update the dashboard with more data on vaccination by race/ethnicity as it becomes available. (5/)
Big shoutout to @AlexesMerritt and Andrew Tiu @Georgetown for their hard work putting this together!
We're a small team, but would be happy to take any feedback and will do our best to incorporate it.
We're a small team, but would be happy to take any feedback and will do our best to incorporate it.
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