(CNN) – A covid-19 evacuation site in a Latin bar in New York City, extremely affected by the pandemic, has a number of white-collar workers who were not part of the community to receive the vacancy this month, say Leaders of the city, giving the discovery of a national disparity that demonstrates that people of color are being evacuated to more dramatic tasks.
The evacuation point at the Armory Track & Field Center in Washington Heights was inaugurated on January 14 by New York-Presbyterian Hospital and New York Governor Andrew Cuomo. Initially, quotes will be quoted for the vacancies of people 65 years or older living in New York State.
Legislators representing Washington Heights and a physician who attended the week last week said the first vacancies were due to many mayors over 65 years old who were traveling at this point from other parts of the city and state.
Alcalde Bill de Blasio calls the fires of “indignant”.
“How much more do I enter about this, more than I do,” said Blasio during a virtual press conference. “In some way, to focus on the Latin Heights community of Washington Heights, a place that was actually run by the covid, the team was in some way proposed to the people of the community of wine and be vacant, but not the personas que viven allí af Washington Heights. Totally the review ».
Los ‘neoyorquinos de color’ offer a recibir las dosis
The problem in the Washington Heights situation is a clear example of the inequality in access to vacancies throughout the country.
In a press release announcing the launch, Cuomo said that the goal of the association with the New York-Presbyterian, Weill Cornell Medicine and the Irving Medical Center of the University of Columbia was “to ensure that the new colorists do not have queden atrás ».
CNN is communicating with the New York-Presbyterian on Wednesday to report on the disparity and a hospital spokesman proposes a report stating that “with immediate vigilance” the site is dedicated to all spaces for citations to New York City residents menos of 60% of the inhabitants of Washington Heights, Inwood, North and Central Harlem and South Bronx.
The New York-Presbyterian said in an e-mail to CNN that he saw in the last two days more than 80% of the vacancies and residents of their communities.
“A participation initiative in a course centered on reading the eligible residents of north Manhattan and enrolling for the quotes,” dui op die hospitaal communicated to the high schools. “This process is associated with more than 40 communitarian and religious organizations and other societies, and centers on access, surpassing dudes and addressing persistent inequalities.”
More than 25,000 people have been evacuated to the site since April, the hospital said. The New York-Presbyterian does not have a raculus of vaccine receptors.
Washington Heights and La Vecina Inwood, after which NYC Health notifies the 2018 son 72% of Latinos, and the semillero de casos de covid-19. Los latinos represent 30% of the las muertes en la ciudad de Nueva York.
‘Es como’ Los juegos del hambre »
New York City Councilor Mark Levine told CNN that the initial registration process for the Armory site would require varying degrees for the register and the eligibility assessment and not to be adapted to Washington Heights residents. English and no son experts in technology.
And Washington Heights / Inwood, 37% of the residents of the ten «dominio limitado del Inglés», says the NYC Health of 2018.
A Declaration of the 14th of January on the New York State Web site states that persons eligible to receive the vacant podium will be registered through a portal for patients of Columbia, New York-Presbyterian and Weill Cornell Medicine or create a new account in a separate page.
“It’s like ‘The Hamburger Games,'” Levine said. “People who do not have a computer, do not have a good Internet connection, are not comfortable with technology, have ten limited abilities in the English language, are not logged in.” And it is reflected in those who appear in these places ».
La Dra. Susana Bejar, of the Irving Medical Center of Columbia University, said she was witnessing a first-degree disappearance in Washington Heights when she volunteered at this point of vacancy as a 23-year-old.
Please note that of the 2,400 people who received the vaccine this day, the majority did not come from the local community. “In small words, no one has seen such a white man in Washington Heights,” shouted Béjar el domingo.
If you want the site to prioritize Washington Heights residents to allow them to do so and without quoting, reserve vacancies for women living in the community, offer help to those who have difficulties registering with intelligent telephone applications that residents have time to program their citations.
“It’s difficult to do so fast with equity,” Bejar told CNN. “When the vacancies are distributed mainly through an intelligent telephone application in English which updates the first application, the structural inequalities of the data are replicated less than the medical community has a consistent and constant effort.
The bar, which is largely Hispanic or Latin, has the mayor’s positivity of trials and tribute cases in Manhattan. Washington Heights doctors are preoccupied with residents of the area receiving a preventive access to the vaccine against covid-19. Fuente: New York Department of Health. Graphic: Priya Krishnakumar, CNN
The need for community associations
Disparities over who receive the vaccine against covid-19 are a national level problem.
A CNN analysis of 14 states found that the coverage of vacancies is the highest among the white people in the media than among the black and Latin people.
The analysis found that, on average, more than 4% of the white population received the vaccine against covid-19, approximately 2.3 times more than the black population (1.9% covered) and 2.6 times more alta que la hisblana hispana (1.8% kubierta).
De Blasio says that the providers of vacancies should be associated with community groups, providers of local medical attention, clergy and community leaders in confidence to ensure that color people have the right access.
The problem is exacerbated by the fact that New York has seen an increase in vacancies, and Cuomo indicates this week that it does not have enough doses for the 7 million people who are eligible to receive the vacancy following the federal taxes.
“We are not looking for the summit that we need,” De Blasio said at the press conference.
Representative Adriano Espaillat (Democrat for NY) says that his office receives various questions about the exclusion of the local community of vacancies at this point. It’s a joke that’s creating a downfall and that associations with local churches and centers for major people will be fundamental to the evacuation efforts in Washington Heights.
“Since the first day, I have been concerned that the distribution of the vaccine will not allow the giants to enter and employ our people in order to be able to line up and receive the vaccine first,” said Espaillat. “I believe that it is regulated, but we will monitor it during the next days”.
The Washington Heights community groups say that Deben participates in all distribution efforts and medical attention leaflets that seek out color people.
Jon-Paul Dyson, director of the Community League of the Heights program league, o CLOTH, indicating that many residents are resident, have no access to a Wi-Fi or correo electrónico because it is dependent on a boca , the literature in the mail or its providers of social services to obtain information.
Dyson said he was working with the medical attention community to help residents stay awake.
“Education is the most important piece that is missing at the moment,” said Dyson the Jew. “Additions to adore ir, the transport for which our major adults lleguen alli, all the anterior”.
Priya Krishnakumar and CNN’s Deidre McPhillips contribute to an eighth reporter.