In LA, we’re vaccinating neighborhoods hardest-hit by COVID at the lowest rates — the opposite of how you’d distribute a vaccine if you wanted to prevent the most transmission and deaths. latimes.com/projects/la-co…
These trends also means that we won’t be able to get the pandemic control, because we won’t prevent outbreaks in the neighborhoods most likely to have them. And then they’ll spread to elsewhere.
If a house were on fire, you’d put the most water on that house to stop the fire and prevent it from spreading. Ignoring that house and watering houses a few blocks away makes no sense and allows the fire to keep going, grow in size and destroy other houses.
You could argue that hard-hit neighborhoods already have some immunity from past infection. But that doesn’t mean that there’s widespread immunity. And their residents don’t continue to be very at risk from being essential workers.
In LA, officials estimate that 1/3 residents have had COVID. Say it’s closer to 50% in some neighborhoods. That’s nowhere near herd immunity. So the other 50% remain vulnerable and face the same risks they have throughout the pandemic.
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