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Groups nationwide are looking for ways to secure coronavirus vaccines for people of color who have suffered disproportionately during the pandemic, according to USA Today.
States that rank highly on COVID-19 vulnerability indexes, in particular, have fallen behind on vaccinations for high-risk groups that need them most.
In Nevada, for instance, several nonprofits focused on specific racial and ethnic groups created the One Community Campaign to educate at-risk groups about COVID-19 and vaccines.
One of the nonprofits — the Arriba Las Vegas Workers Center — supports Latino domestic workers and laborers. Throughout the pandemic, the group has taught workers how to protect themselves from the virus. Now the group is helping workers make vaccination appointments.
"To be able to make an appointment for the vaccine right now, you need to have a computer, you need to have internet in your home.You need to be comfortable scanning a copy of your identification and uploading it," Bliss Requa-Trautz, executive director of the group, told USA Today.
Online registration sites don't have instructions for Spanish-speaking community members, she said, creating an additional challenge.
"That's probably going to be an indicator of what initial data is going to look like in terms of who is accessing or not," she said.
