Disparities in distribution of COVID-19 vaccines across US counties: A geographic information system-based cross-sectional study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has repeatedly called for Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccine equity. The objective our study was to measure equity in the early distribution of COVID-19 vaccines to healthcare facilities across the US. Specifically, we tested whether the likelihood of a healthcare facility administering COVID-19 vaccines in May 2021 differed by county-level racial composition and degree of urbanicity.

Methods and findings

The outcome was whether an eligible vaccination facility actually administered COVID-19 vaccines as of May 2021, and was defined by spatially matching locations of eligible and actual COVID-19 vaccine administration locations. The outcome was regressed against county-level measures for racial/ethnic compo

SUBMITTER: Hernandez I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9333439 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature