Smiling woman at a senior center
Photo credit: Julia Xanthos Liddy, 2019

January 11, 2021

Disparities may persist in vaccine distribution, Finkelstein tells The City news site

In an article on providing COVID-19 vaccinations to older adults in New York City, Brookdale executive director Ruth Finkelstein warned that low-income communities and communities of color may end up at the back of the line. Government officials have not done a good job explaining how they can get vaccinated, she told The City news site. “Despite the good intentions to not recreate the terrible disparities that happened during COVID we are in real danger of just that in vaccine distribution,” she said.