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Title:
   COVID-19 Vaccination Prioritization Scenarios and Their Effects on Eligibility by Poverty Level, Race, and Ethnicity
Product type:
   Research Findings 46
MEPS component:
   Household Component
Publication date:
   March 5, 2021
Description:
   Early vaccination priorities have in most U.S. jurisdictions focused on healthcare workers, long-term care residents, and adults age 75 and older. How the nation allocates vaccine resources for the remaining population poses difficult decisions for policymakers (Biggerstaff, 2020; Dooling et al., 2020). This Research Findings report uses data from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey to examine how three hypothetical prioritizations would affect the vaccine eligibility of groups defined by poverty level and race and ethnicity. The first hypothetical scenario prioritizes most essential workers ahead of those in the under-65 population with COVID-19-related health risks. A second scenario reverses this order by prioritizing those with COVID-19-related health risks ahead of non-health essential workers. A third prioritization is based solely on the administratively simple characteristic of age. For each hypothetical prioritization, we present the overall size of each priority group, and we show how alternative strategies would affect eligibility across poverty levels and across race and ethnicity.
Author(s):
   Thomas M. Selden, PhD, Terceira A. Berdahl, PhD, and Zhengyi Fang, MS
Agency:
   Rockville (MD): Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Source:
   Web Only
MEPS Topics:
   Access to Health Care, Health Care Disparities, Health Status, Jobs, Minority Health
PDF link:
   data_files/publications/rf46/rf46.pdf (736 KB)
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