Vaccines access is becoming a national checkerboard of availability, with wide gaps between where they’re available and where they’re not.
Among the problems this patchwork creates: Parents say they can’t find a COVID vaccine without driving two hours. They say their doctor’s offices aren’t ordering the vaccine because the CDC isn’t recommending it for children under 18.
But, as WaNPRC Director Deborah Fuller told Healthcare Dive, “Viruses don’t see borders.”
“If you have an outbreak somewhere, it’s a problem for everyone, everywhere,” she said.
That may lead to discrepancies in health outcomes that depend on the politics of your zipcode, not science.
Read more on what health care providers and scientists say that means for our nation’s future.