{"id":36854,"date":"2021-08-24T13:32:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-24T13:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/143.198.236.18\/?p=21096"},"modified":"2023-08-31T21:23:00","modified_gmt":"2023-08-31T21:23:00","slug":"was-the-uk-vaccine-rollout-discriminatory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fideres.com\/it\/was-the-uk-vaccine-rollout-discriminatory\/","title":{"rendered":"Was The UK Vaccine Rollout Discriminatory?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Key Points<\/h2>\n<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n<ul>\n<li>Exclusive data gathered by Fideres suggests that NHS England\u2019s Covid-19 vaccine rollout was indiscriminate.<\/li>\n<li>The AstraZeneca, Pfizer\/BioNTech, and Moderna vaccines have been administered fairly, in proportion with their availability.<\/li>\n<li>Factors such as geography and ethnicity seem to have had no impact on the type of Covid-19 vaccine delivered to adults in England.<\/li>\n<li>Data from 34 NHS areas shows that 60% of adults were given the AstraZeneca vaccine, with around 40% receiving the Pfizer\/BioNTech jab, regardless of ethnicity. Less than 1% of each ethnic group was given a Moderna vaccine by the end of May 2021.<\/li>\n<li>There is slightly more variation in the proportion of vaccines given by area, but this appears random, and is not correlated with the region\u2019s recent voting history.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<h2>Background<\/h2>\n<h3>Race for a Vaccine<\/h3>\n<p>On 11<sup>th<\/sup> March 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the Covid-19 outbreak a pandemic.<a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/docs\/COVID_Crisis_LearningTheLessons_Timeline.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><sup>1<\/sup><\/a> The UK government committed to finding a vaccine to treat and prevent Covid-19, dedicating \u00a320 million to vaccine development in February 2020. When these funds were announced, former Health Secretary Matt Hancock said: \u201cVaccines are our best defense against a host of deadly diseases, including coronavirus.\u201d<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/20m-announced-to-fund-vaccines-for-coronavirus-and-other-infectious-diseases\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><sup>2<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On 2<sup>nd<\/sup> December 2020, the UK medicines regulator gave approval for use of the first Covid-19 vaccine, developed by Pfizer\/BioNTech.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/uk-medicines-regulator-gives-approval-for-first-uk-covid-19-vaccine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><sup>3<\/sup><\/a> Less than a week later, Coventry grandmother Margaret Keenan became the first person in the world to receive the vaccine outside of trials.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-55227325\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><sup>4<\/sup><\/a> Since then, over 88 million doses have been administered in the United Kingdom.<a href=\"https:\/\/coronavirus.data.gov.uk\/details\/vaccinations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><sup>5<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Oxford\/AstraZeneca jab, developed in the UK, was approved on 30<sup>th<\/sup> December 2020, and first deployed on 4<sup>th<\/sup> January 2021. Meanwhile, the Moderna vaccine, approved on 8<sup>th<\/sup> January 2021, was not included in the rollout until 7<sup>th<\/sup> April 2021.<sup>6<\/sup><\/p>\n<h3>Vaccine Hesitancy and Institutional Discrimination<\/h3>\n<p>Minority ethnic groups are between two and four times more likely to die as a result of Covid-19 compared to those from a White ethnic background, according to data from Public Health England.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelancet.com\/journals\/laninf\/article\/PIIS1473-3099(21)00404-7\/fulltext\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><sup>7<\/sup><\/a> However, these minorities also report greater vaccine hesitancy compared to other ethnic groups. A 2020 UK-wide survey found that Black and Black British adults had the highest rate of vaccine hesitancy \u2013 around 70%. They were followed by Pakistani and Bangladeshi respondents at 42%, with White British or Irish respondents trailing at 15%.<sup>8<\/sup><\/p>\n<p>The Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE) raised concerns that low vaccine uptake among ethnic minorities was a result of historical institutional discrimination. For example, Black women are four times more likely to die in pregnancy and childbirth than White women in the UK, while women from Asian ethnic backgrounds face a risk twice that of White women.<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/jan\/15\/black-women-in-the-uk-four-times-more-likely-to-die-in-pregnancy-or-childbirth\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">9<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npeu.ox.ac.uk\/mbrrace-uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">9<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n<p>In a report, SAGE experts said: \u201cMinority ethnic groups have historically been underrepresented within health research, including vaccines trials, which can influence trust in a particular vaccine being perceived as appropriate and safe, and concerns that immunisation research is not ethnically heterogenous.\u201d<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/16\/covid-vaccine-black-people-unlikely-covid-jab-uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><sup>10<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Differences Between the Vaccines<\/h2>\n<h3>Side Effects<\/h3>\n<p>The AstraZeneca vaccine has received considerable negative press coverage since its approval in the UK on 30<sup>th<\/sup> December 2020.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/oxford-universityastrazeneca-vaccine-authorised-by-uk-medicines-regulator\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><sup>11<\/sup><\/a> After reports of extremely rare side effects, such as blood clots, the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) advised that adults aged under 30 without underlying health conditions should be given an alternative vaccine.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/use-of-the-astrazeneca-covid-19-vaccine-jcvi-statement-7-may-2021\/use-of-the-astrazeneca-covid-19-azd1222-vaccine-updated-jcvi-statement-7-may-2021\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><sup>12<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Efficacy<\/h3>\n<p>The AstraZeneca vaccine was also said to be less effective than the Pfizer alternative. For the Alpha variant of Covid-19, two doses of AstraZeneca offer 86% protection against hospitalization while Pfizer gives 95% protection.<a href=\"https:\/\/khub.net\/web\/phe-national\/public-library\/-\/document_library\/v2WsRK3ZlEig\/view_file\/479607329?_com_liferay_document_library_web_portlet_DLPortlet_INSTANCE_v2WsRK3ZlEig_redirect=https%3A%2F%2Fkhub.net%3A443%2Fweb%2Fphe-national%2Fpublic-library%2F-%2Fdocument_library%2Fv2WsRK3ZlEig%2Fview%2F479607266\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><sup>13<\/sup><\/a> Recent Public Health England research has shown that this efficacy gap is smaller with the Delta variant, where AstraZeneca and Pfizer offer 92% and 96% protection respectively.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/vaccines-highly-effective-against-hospitalisation-from-delta-variant\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><sup>14<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The UK only began to roll out its third coronavirus vaccine, made by Moderna, in April 2021.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-wales-56657038\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><sup>15<\/sup><\/a> This means that there is less data on its efficacy, but Public Health England reports that one dose of the Moderna vaccine offers 72% protection against symptomatic disease (compared to 61% for Pfizer).<a href=\"https:\/\/assets.publishing.service.gov.uk\/government\/uploads\/system\/uploads\/attachment_data\/file\/998411\/Vaccine_surveillance_report_-_week_26.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><sup>16<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Public Perception<\/h3>\n<p>The efficacy and risk differences between the vaccines are minimal, and the medical consensus has consistently been that a vaccine from any of the approved manufacturers provides a safe defence against the deadly coronavirus. When the JCVI advice on offering the AstraZeneca jab to young people changed, the UK\u2019s Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency said: \u201cOur position remains that the benefits of the COVID-19 Vaccine AstraZeneca against COVID-19, with its associated risk of hospitalisation and death, continue to outweigh the risks for the vast majority of people.\u201d<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/mhra-response-to-jcvi-advice-on-covid-19-vaccine-astrazeneca-for-people-aged-under-40\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><sup>17<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n<p>However, these distinctions and the reports of side effects have contributed significantly to vaccine hesitancy in the UK.<a href=\"https:\/\/bmjopen.bmj.com\/content\/bmjopen\/11\/6\/e048856.full.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><sup>18<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Research Question<\/h3>\n<p>When the highly infectious Delta variant began to spread in England, Fideres noticed that regional infection hotspots were often in areas with high ethnic minority populations.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.itv.com\/news\/2021-06-25\/covid-delta-variant-the-top-20-hotspots-in-england\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><sup>19<\/sup><\/a> For example, Manchester, Birmingham, and Bradford \u2013 all identified as cities with high numbers of Delta cases \u2013 are each residence to large ethnic minority groups.<sup>20<\/sup> This observation, alongside the higher Covid-19 mortality and vaccine hesitancy rates among ethnic minorities and the history of institutional racism in healthcare, led Fideres to investigate whether the vaccine rollout was fair, both for minority ethnic groups and between different regions.<\/p>\n<h2>A Fair Vaccine Rollout<\/h2>\n<h3>Freedom of Information Requests<\/h3>\n<p>Fideres sent Freedom of Information (FOI) requests to every NHS Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) in England, asking for a breakdown of each type of vaccine administered in the CCG area by month and ethnicity.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.england.nhs.uk\/2014\/10\/ccgs-achievements\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><sup>21<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The resultant dataset comprised information from 34 CCGs across England, covering over 21 million vaccine doses administered between December 2020 and May 2021.\u00a0 This provides a representative sample of the Covid-19 vaccine rollout.<\/p>\n<h3>Vaccine by Ethnicity<\/h3>\n<p>Fideres aggregated the CCG FOI data into six ethnic groups: \u2018Black, African, and Caribbean\u2019; \u2018Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi, Chinese, and any other Asian background\u2019; \u2018White, Irish, and British\u2019; \u2018Mixed and Multiple Ethnic\u2019; \u2018Any other ethnic group\u2019; \u2018Not stated or unknown\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>There is remarkably little variation in the proportion of each ethnic group receiving each vaccine type. Within all six ethnic categories, around 40% received the Pfizer vaccine and 60% were given AstraZeneca. Due to the late entry of the Moderna jab into the vaccine rollout, less than 1% of each ethnic group had received this jab by the end of May. It is important to note that this distribution was the same even within the category of people refusing to state their identity \u2013 many of which are likely to have belonged to ethnic minority groups.<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-36856 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/fideres.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Picture1-vaccine-distribution-by-ethnicity.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"3132\" height=\"2610\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fideres.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Picture1-vaccine-distribution-by-ethnicity.png 3132w, https:\/\/fideres.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Picture1-vaccine-distribution-by-ethnicity-300x250.png 300w, https:\/\/fideres.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Picture1-vaccine-distribution-by-ethnicity-1024x853.png 1024w, https:\/\/fideres.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Picture1-vaccine-distribution-by-ethnicity-768x640.png 768w, https:\/\/fideres.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Picture1-vaccine-distribution-by-ethnicity-1536x1280.png 1536w, https:\/\/fideres.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Picture1-vaccine-distribution-by-ethnicity-2048x1707.png 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 3132px) 100vw, 3132px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#_ftnref1\" name=\"_ftn1\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>AstraZeneca jabs dominate this data because this was the most abundant vaccine in the UK\u2019s supply. By January 2021, the UK government had ordered 40 million Pfizer doses versus 100 million of the AstraZeneca jabs.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/8b48a853-5b14-4378-91d4-17026fa15472\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><sup>22<\/sup><\/a> Despite the restrictions placed on administering the UK-developed doses to young people, and despite Pfizer\u2019s earlier approval and deployment, the majority of vaccines administered before May were manufactured by AstraZeneca.<\/p>\n<p>On 8<sup>th<\/sup> June 2021, people aged 25 and over became eligible to book a vaccine appointment.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/health-57384099\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><sup>23<\/sup><\/a> This marked the start of the vaccine rollout for those young people advised against getting the AstraZeneca jab, meaning that the data since May is likely to show a rise in the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines administered. There is no evidence that this change will affect the fairness of the vaccine rollout.<\/p>\n<h3>Vaccine by Area<\/h3>\n<p>The proportions of AstraZeneca, Pfizer, and Moderna vaccines administered within each NHS area varied slightly more, but remained largely equitable. For the majority of the CCGs in Fideres\u2019s dataset (84%), between 50% and 65% of vaccine doses administered were manufactured by AstraZeneca.<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-36857 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/fideres.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Vaccine-Breakdown-by-CCG_2022-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1633\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fideres.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Vaccine-Breakdown-by-CCG_2022-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/fideres.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Vaccine-Breakdown-by-CCG_2022-300x191.jpg 300w, https:\/\/fideres.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Vaccine-Breakdown-by-CCG_2022-1024x653.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/fideres.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Vaccine-Breakdown-by-CCG_2022-768x490.jpg 768w, https:\/\/fideres.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Vaccine-Breakdown-by-CCG_2022-1536x980.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/fideres.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Vaccine-Breakdown-by-CCG_2022-2048x1306.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Notable outliers are NHS East and North Hertfordshire CCG and NHS Blackpool CCG. Within these CCG areas respectively, 70% and 74% of the vaccines administered were manufactured by AstraZeneca. A low 28% and 26% of their respective doses were made by Pfizer. However, these results appear to be anomalous rather than a symptom of regional discrimination in the NHS\u2019 vaccine administration.<\/p>\n<p>The proportion of Pfizer and AstraZeneca vaccines administered in each CCG area also bears no relation to the recent voting history of the local constituency. For both the localities which voted Conservative in the last election and those which voted for Labour, an average of 39% of the vaccines administered were produced by Pfizer.<\/p>\n<h2>Conclusions<\/h2>\n<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n<ul>\n<li>There was no ethnic or geographic discrimination in which vaccines were administered in the NHS England Covid-19 vaccine rollout.<\/li>\n<li>Data covering over 21 million vaccine doses show that 60% of each ethnic group was given the AstraZeneca vaccine and around 40% received the Pfizer\/BioNTech jab. In other words, a minority ethnic person in England was no more likely to receive a specific type of vaccine than a White British or Irish person.<\/li>\n<li>The proportion of each vaccine administered in each local area was also consistent across the majority of CCGs. An adult in Bradford was just as likely to receive a Pfizer vaccine as an adult in Shropshire.<\/li>\n<li>There is no evidence of preferential vaccine distribution by voting history.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No &#8211; It was the picture of fairness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":36855,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[592],"tags":[931],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Was The UK Vaccine Rollout Discriminatory? - Fideres<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The UK government rollout of COVID-19 vaccines is a rare example of a policy which achieved economic fairness.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/fideres.com\/it\/was-the-uk-vaccine-rollout-discriminatory\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Was The UK Vaccine Rollout Discriminatory? 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