Abstract
With the ongoing spread of COVID-19, vaccination stands as an effective measure to control and mitigate the impact of the disease. However, due to the unequal distribution of COVID-19 vaccination sites, people can have different levels of spatial accessibility to COVID-19 vaccination. This study adopts an improved gravity-based model to measure the racial/ethnic inequity in transit-based spatial accessibility to COVID-19 vaccination sites in the Chicago Metropolitan Area. The results show that Black-majority and Hispanic-majority neighborhoods have significantly lower transit-based spatial accessibility to COVID-19 vaccination sites compared to White-majority neighborhoods. This research concludes that minority-dominated inner-city neighborhoods, despite better public transit coverage, are still disadvantaged in terms of transit-based spatial accessibility to COVID-19 vaccination sites. This is probably due to their higher population densities, which increase the competition for the limited supply of COVID-19 vaccination sites within each catchment area.
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