The Racial Disparities in NY's Vaccine Rollout

The Brian Lehrer Show | Feb 2, 2021

Overall, Black and Latino residents have received half the share of vaccines expected for them based on the city’s population makeup. New York City Council Member Mark Levine (D, 7th - Washington Heights, West Harlem, Upper West Side), chair of the Council Health Committee, and Uché Blackstock, M.D, emergency medicine physician, founder and CEO of Advancing Health Equities and a Yahoo News medical contributor, talk about the data, and what the city can do to remedy the disparities.

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