VaxMap distances you to a COVID-19 vaccination clinic.
State officials deserve cell immunization clinics to allow rural citizens and older adults to be vacuous against COVID-19, according to a new study.
The University of Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy and the West Health Policy Center sought to know how far other people lead to a vaccination site, knew the sites, and then calculated how many other people lived within 10 miles of the site.
They say 35% of U. S. counties. They have two or less of these vaccination sites and 1 in 10 counties have less than one facility consisting of 10,000 inhabitants. VaxMap displays this data.
Lucas Berenbrok, assistant professor at Pitt School of Pharmacy and principal editor of the study, said in a press release that state officials will need to design vaccine distribution plans to satisfy the wishes of groups of express patients. local fitness infrastructure.
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This can mean simply adding more sites in places with short driving distances but fewer installations. In spaces where immunization clinics are scarce, fitness officials deserve to reduce the desire to travel long distances.
Researchers used geographic data formula software to map the more than 70,000 possible sites that can be used to administer the vaccine. The goal is to calculate the average distance by car to the nearest facility with a focus on high-risk populations, such as people over 65 and above.
Community pharmacies, federally qualified gyms, hospitals, and rural clinics are all places for vaccine delivery. Search for 70,549 known sites.
The interactive map includes filters for the density of the facilities, the population of 65 years and more living more than 16 km from an installation and the population more than 16 km from a facility. vaccination site: People in the Upper Midwest and some mountainous states will have to drive more to get vaccinated.
Counties with the fewest vaccination sites relative to population length are Texas, Kansas, Nebraska, Montana, and Virginia. Residents of North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, Wyoming, Nebraska and Kansas will have to drive further, with more than 10% living more than km from the nearest facility.
In 12% of counties, at least part of the elderly population has more than 10 miles of road. In the Dakotas, 25% of the elderly are more than 16 km from an institution.
Tim Lash, president of the West Health Policy Center, said in a press release that there are obviously some positions across the country that want more assistance than others.
“We conducted research in U. S. states and counties to identify potential vaccine management disorders, take effective methods, and take steps to succeed on them,” he said.
Researchers found that in 28% of U. S. counties, the U. S. and its allies have been able to do so. At least 80% of the population lived within five miles of a facility; in 49% of counties, at least 90% of the population lived within 10 miles of an establishment. two% of counties had at least 20% of citizens with a driving distance of more than 10 miles from the nearest facility.
Researchers used the US synthetic population data set. But it’s not the first time From 2010 developed through RTI International to perform the analysis.
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