Advocates call on health experts to include LGBTQ people in COVID-19 vaccine rollout
higher risk of acquiring COVID-19, and have been disproportionately impacted by financial hardship stemming from shutdowns put in place to control the spread of the virus.As a result, advocates say LGBTQ people must be included in comprehensive and targeted messaging campaigns to ensure they can participate in vaccination efforts.“Because they are more likely to hold frontline jobs and have certain chronic conditions, LGBTQI people may be disproportionately vulnerable to novel coronavirus infection and to complications should they develop COVID-19,” Sean Cahill, the director of health policy research at The Fenway Institute, said in a statement.