UH Sociologist Finds Disparities in Initial COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution

UH Sociologist Finds Disparities in Initial COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution

February 15, 2022 | During the first weeks of the COVID-19 vaccine rollout in December 2020, Kathryn Freeman Anderson searched far and wide for places to get her parents, who are older than 65, vaccinated. The extensive search prompted the University of Houston associate professor of sociology to look at the map of Houston sites, and knowing the demographics of the city, she suspected there might be an association between segregation and vaccine allocations.