Toronto’s COVID-19 vaccine rollout slower in low-income, hardest hit areas, data suggests – CBC

Postal code information suggests disparity in access to shots in Toronto neighbourhoods

Apr 07, 2021

A new analysis of postal code and vaccination data in Toronto suggests that the city’s hardest-hit neighbourhoods have not been getting COVID-19 vaccines at the same rate as higher-income areas that have seen much lower rates of the virus.

The analysis from the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES) provides more concrete evidence for something many experts have been saying for months: that the pandemic is disproportionately affecting Toronto-area neighbourhoods with the most essential workers and lowest income levels.

The data also helps explain why pressure on the province to increase public health measures and ensure better protections for essential workers has been growing in recent weeks.

Read more: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/toronto-covid-19-vaccines-1.5978107

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