Racial Minorities Need the Covid-19 Vaccine the Most, but Prioritizing Them Will Be Difficult

Legal, ethical, and cultural roadblocks will make distribution tricky

Yasmin Tayag
Medium Coronavirus Blog
4 min readOct 22, 2020

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People of color have been hit disproportionately hard by the Covid-19 pandemic. Not only are Black, Latinx, Indigenous, and other people of color dying at higher rates than white people, they…

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Yasmin Tayag
Medium Coronavirus Blog

Editor, Medium Coronavirus Blog. Senior editor at Future Human by OneZero. Previously: science at Inverse, genetics at NYU.