Vaccination
The geography and politics of administering vaccine rollouts have always needed to be masterminded to be successful. With the current COVID-19 vaccine campaign underway, we discuss the geography of past and current inoculation efforts and what made them successful... or not.
End Measles Inc. Newsletter Archive
Show Notes + Links
More on the 1947 New York City smallpox outbreak and vaccine rollout program
Article from Slate on current COVID vaccination efforts vs. a 1976 swine flu vaccination program (for an outbreak that never really materialized)
National Institute of Health review/overview of The politics of vaccination in twentieth-century America
Bloomberg article on Alaska’s COVID vaccine rollout program
Health and Policy Planning: The impacts of decentralization on health system equity, efficiency and resilience: a realist synthesis of the evidence
More about that CDC VaccineFinder web tool
Extra Credit Reading: Future Tense recalls the god-awful post-9/11 effort to vaccinate healthcare workers in case of a smallpox bioattack. Fascinating.
Post-production update on racial disparities in vaccination for COVID-19: “‘They had stuck in their head that Black and brown communities will actually turn the vaccine down without even doing a survey, without even having a plan, without having a person representing those communities at the table with the planning session…’”
