‘It felt like we were invisible’
As anticipation of a vaccine grew last year, leaders in Washington state’s immigrant communities and communities of color asked the state to designate multigenerational families as an early high priority.
About 22% of Asian households in the state are multigenerational. But “it felt like we were invisible,” said Seattle resident Trang Tu, who lives with and cares for her 90-year-old mother.
Last summer, a federal advisory group tasked with developing plans for fairly distributing the vaccine began wrestling with the concerns of multigenerational families. The advisers suggested giving local officials the latitude to vaccinate entire households regardless of age if experts thought that approach
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