Sex Workers Are Fighting to Get the COVID Vaccine

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Sex Workers Are Fighting to Get the COVID Vaccine

Had Washington followed through, it likely would've been the first state to prioritize vaccinating people in the sex work industry, which encompasses a broad range of occupations with varying degrees of in-person contact and legality. With coronavirus vaccines in such short supply, deciding who gets first dibs is a deeply complex process that invokes questions of ethics, public health, and political acceptability.

But many sex workers have been economically ravaged by the coronavirus and driven to work in-person, sometimes without adequate PPE. Public health professionals say that they should not be forgotten in the vaccine rollout.

"The public health risk is clear. I'm sure that public health officials see the risk plainly, but indeed, there is a clash with the law," said Joanne Csete, an associate professor of population and family health at the Columbia University Irving Medical Center. "If we're talking about a livelihood that inherently puts them at a health risk, at an infectious disease risk, then we should do what we can do to protect them."

https://www.vice.com/en/article/k7a53v/sex-workers-are-fighting-to-get-the-covid-vaccine