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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There's a lot of misunderstanding of public health, and the digital divide, in this thread.

First of all, public health is not about individuals. It is about the community. Decades of best practice suggest that using zip codes as a proxy for risk leads to better population-level outcomes than elaborate systems that would assign each individual person some sort of risk level.

Experts have modeled out each of these scenarios, and it is better *for the community* to get the higher risk groups vaccinated first, and we know that certain zip codes have large number of people with significant overlapping risks: dense housing, public-facing jobs, and poor underlying health.

So, yes, at the individual level it might make more sense to vaccinate the 65 year old federal worker in Ward 3 ahead of the 70 year old stay at home grandma in Ward 8, but at the population level, the data modeling shows that focusing on the higher risk areas will save more lives.

Okay, onto the digital divide. It's sort of a misnomer, because it's really a digital + time + access divide. Access to internet is only one factor. The other factors are access to information about how to get an appointment, and time/resources to be online at 6 am waiting for that slot to open.

In general, Ward 3 folks have more digital access, but also more time and resources and access to information. [/quote]

Can we please dispense with the Ward 8 is a disheveled, no internet, no access, no time, no health care no jobs, no food Ward narrative? Please?

All of these things mentioned in this thread about Ward 8 are true by varying percentages. Ward 8 has homes and restaurants and jobs and schools and internet, and incredibly... Health insurance, just like all of the other Wards do. Guess what? It also has white and other non black ethnic groups (go ahead and jump on me for misusing ethnic)

To say that a Ward 8 grandma did not sign up for a vaccine because of any of these reasons is simply trying to explain a problem away without knowing what you are talking about. It is like an undergrad writing a paper without conducting a study. Buzz words will get your story published but that does not mean there is any meat on that bone.

In this case all of the cross Ward studies show Ward 8 way behind in every measurable means of COVID policy compliance (masks ETC). When was the last time you walked through a Ward 8 neighborhood and saw anything close to the 58% compliance that the studies found? But again those are only the people out and about.

To try and say that Ward 8 is still not signing up for shots even after the shaping policies implemented by the City Council is due to a digital divide or super eager residents from Wards 3 and 4 is ignoring the data.

Ward 8 residents, statistically, do not want to get administered the COVID vaccine. They do not want to wear their masks.

From the data it looks like those who are interested in the shots have managed to sign up and receive them.

It genuinely looks like the number one issue that can be addressed that would make a difference is not opening another vaccination point in the Ward but funding a concerted effort to address COVID and the benefits of a vaccine and personal protective equipment. The population obviously does not like what you are selling right now. So you need to create a better sales pitch. Don't look for esoteric reasons why grandma might have missed a computer literacy class and did not know how to pass a CAPTCHA test. Find out why she did not want to register in the first place and address that.

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