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Kofi Hope and Zahra Ebrahim |
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Kwame McKenzie, Sané Dube, Stephen Petersen, Ontario Health |
Developed in partnership with Ontario Health, this report examines race-based data collected between June 26, 2020 and April 21, 2021, by Ontario public health units. The data show that COVID-19’s impact has been highly racialized. The analysis found that racialized populations had 1.2- to 7.1-fold higher rates of COVID-19 infection compared with white Ontarians. The […]
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Wellesley Institute |
2020 was the year that changed everything. It changed the way we live, work, and connect. While COVID-19 is a global story of health, housing, and employment, it is foremost a story of inequity. The pandemic shone a spotlight on historic and systemic inequities and challenged us to rethink our priorities. Over the past year, […]
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Jesse Rosenberg, Rebecca Cheff, Nahomi Amberber |
A range of strategies have been suggested to increase vaccination rates – from free donuts and lotteries to employment requirements and vaccine certificates. Wellesley Institute has conducted a rapid review of effectiveness evidence and an analysis of unintended impacts on equity-seeking groups of eleven strategies to determine which strategies could meaningfully increase vaccination rates and […]
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Ashley Flanagan, Seong-gee Um, Samir Sinha, Brenda Roche, Jesse Rosenburg, Michael Nicin, Kwame McKenzie |
The COVID-19 pandemic has taken a disproportionate toll on Canada’s most vulnerable populations. With growing evidence on the inequitable impacts of COVID-19 across Canada, it is reasonable to assume that similar impacts have occurred, and will continue to occur, amongst the diverse population groups of Canadians living and working in long-term care settings. Unfortunately, due […]
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Vinusha Gunaseelan, James Iveniuk |
The onset of COVID-19 and the introduction of lockdown practices to prevent its spread have raised considerable concerns about their impact on mental health, and the potential for an ‘echo pandemic’ of mental health problems. For this reason, the City of Toronto announced a mental health support strategy in April of 2020, urging residents to […]
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Nahomi Amberber, James Iveniuk, Kwame McKenzie |
Throughout the pandemic, researchers working in various regions have shown that COVID-19 infection rates are disproportionately higher for racialized and low-income persons. In July, and November of 2020, data from Toronto Public Health showed that approximately 80 per cent of new COVID-19 cases in Toronto were among racialized persons, even though they make up only […]
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James Iveniuk, Nahomi Amberber, Kwame McKenzie |
In mid-April, Wellesley Institute reported that areas in Ontario with higher rates of COVID-19 had lower rates of vaccination. The original report also documented inequities by racial composition of an area: neighbourhoods that had a higher per cent of Black, South Asian, Southeast Asian, or Latino populations had lower rates of vaccination, even after taking […]
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James Iveniuk, Kwame McKenzie |
In mid-April, Wellesley Institute reported that areas in Ontario with higher rates of COVID-19 had lower rates of vaccination, and that this pattern was greatest in the City of Toronto. Since the publication of that report, a follow-up bulletin described a movement towards greater equity, where the mismatch between vaccination rates and COVID-19 infection rates […]
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James Iveniuk, Kwame McKenzie |
Wellesley Institute reported that areas in Ontario with higher rates of COVID-19 tend to have lower rates of vaccination, and that this pattern is greatest in the City of Toronto. Since the publication of that analysis, the Province of Ontario has asked public health units to increase vaccination efforts in COVID-19 “hot spots”; the 114 […]
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