Does prioritization of COVID vaccine distribution to communities with the highest COVID burden reduce health inequity?
Prioritizing vaccination within the hardest-hit communities, paired with sustained mitigation efforts in communities with the greatest advantage, resulted in the greatest overall reduction in mortality and inequities. Emergency response teams should consider a community's ability to continue non-pharmaceutical mitigation efforts when allocating limited pharmaceutical supplies.
Authors
- Jessica B. McGillen
- Remle Newton-Dame
- Jaimie Shaff
- R. Scott Braithwaite (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7067-3655)
- Charles Ko
- Anna Bershteyn (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6604-7093)
- Julia Sisti (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2646-9758)
- Rienna Russo (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4502-9360)
- Hae-Young Kim
Institutions
- New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation (US)
- RAND Corporation (US)
- New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (US)
- Harvard University (US)
- New York University (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Journal of Infection and Public Health
- Published
- 2025-07-19
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jiph.2025.102904
- Primary Topic
- COVID-19 epidemiological studies
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00