Changes Over Time in COVID-19 Vaccination Inequalities in Eight Large U.S. Cities
10 Pages Posted: 5 Jan 2022
Date Written: November 23, 2021
Abstract
We estimate the associations between community socioeconomic composition and changes in COVID-19 vaccination levels in eight large cities at three time points. Between March and April, low SES communities had significantly lower change in percent vaccinated than high SES communities. Between April and May, this difference was not significant. Thus, the large vaccination gap between communities during restricted vaccine eligibility did not narrow when eligibility opened up. The link between COVID-19 vaccination and community disadvantage may lead to a bifurcated recovery where advantaged communities move on from the pandemic more quickly while disadvantaged communities continue to suffer.
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Funding: This project was supported in part by the California Center for Population Research at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) with training support (T32HD007545) and core support (P2CHD041022) from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD).
Declaration of Interests: None to declare.
Keywords: COVID-19, disparities, inequality, neighborhood, pandemic, socioeconomic, spatial, urban, vaccine
JEL Classification: I1, I13, I14
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