'Whose lives matter most?': California's vaccine rollout faces tough questions of equity

Advocates for farmworkers, incarcerated people and indigenous communities are pushing for early access to Covid vaccine

As the first doses of the Covid-19 vaccine arrive in California, officials are facing intense pressure to prioritize vulnerable communities and promote equity and racial justice in the state's distribution scheme.

Historically marginalized groups that have been ravaged by the virus and their advocates are pushing for urgent vaccine access, including farm workers in the Central Valley, undocumented laborers in the meatpacking industry, incarcerated people in overcrowded prisons and indigenous communities in remote regions.