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Coronavirus vaccine equity group whittles recommendations to about half of Oregonians amid first signs of ten - OregonLive

Coronavirus vaccine equity group whittles recommendations to about half of Oregonians amid first signs of ten - OregonLive

Coronavirus vaccine equity group whittles recommendations to about half of Oregonians amid first signs of ten - OregonLive
Jan 21, 2021 1 min, 25 secs

For now, the Vaccine Advisory Committee is recommending that BIPOC communities, numbering about 806,000, and people with underlying chronic conditions, numbering about 1.8 million Oregonians, get vaccinated next.

They would follow health care workers, senior care residents and staff, inmates, teachers and some senior citizens who are or will soon be eligible.

The committee has until mid-February to tell the Oregon Health Authority who should be vaccinated after the governor’s priority populations.

But in a reflection of the extraordinary challenge behind fighting a concept as amorphous and simultaneously concrete as “systemic racism,” one of the two proposals Thursday is already top of mind for health experts and government officials: focus on people with chronic health conditions.

But the proposal was hardly original, given that the federal government is already recommending that people with chronic conditions be vaccinated next, along with those 65 and older.

Kate Brown has decided to not prioritize people with chronic conditions, allowing teachers to get vaccinated Jan.

In light of the committee’s fundamental purpose – to help launch Oregon’s battle against historic inequities – one of the committee members bristled when members proposed that people with health conditions be prioritized ahead of or instead of minorities.

It’s unclear if the committee will ultimately recommend that BIPOC communities get vaccinated ahead of people with underlying conditions.

Last week, the group began its discussions with an extremely broad list and asked the health authority to analyze how it could vaccinate: BIPOC communities, refugees, people 16 to 64 years old with chronic health conditions, people eligible for vaccines who are in jail or prison, frontline workers who weren’t already eligible, people in multi-generational homes and people under 65 living in low-income senior housing or other congregate care settings.

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