1st State to Marry Black Lives Matters lessons and COVID lessons.

What’s happening? Vermont because the first state to consider the disproportionate impact of COVD on Black and minority communities. For COVID, Black and minority residents are more than TWICE as likely to end up in the hospital. To make up for it, Vermont is giving vaccine priority to minority Vermontians.

Why is this important? More governmental entities are considering how their actions disproportionately impacting certain, mostly Black and minority communities, and are taking action to correct for this.

How will this be important? More local governments will be doing this once there are examples to follow.

Route Fifty | Vermont Is 1st State to Give Minority Residents Vaccine Priority