The Yale Law Journal

Olatunde C.A. Johnson

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Vaccination Equity by Design

Kristen Underhill & Olatunde C.A. Johnson

This Essay examines how states’ initial COVID-19 vaccine-distribution strategies tended to disadvantage populations of color, including Black, Latinx, and Native American communities. These dynamics resonate with “inverse equity” effects of other public-health innovations. We argue for a federal reg…