New Hampshire Denied White Man Vaccine Due To His Skin Color, New Complaint Says September 28, 2021 By Jordan Davidson
A white man who had “elevated medical risk to COVID-19” was denied a vaccine in New Hampshire due to the color of his skin, a new joint civil rights complaint from the Ethics and Public Policy Center and Boyden Gray & Associates states.
The complaint, which was sent to the Biden administration’s Office of Civil Rights on Tuesday, claims that the man attempted to get a dose of the COVID-19 shot through the Public Health Council of the Upper Valley in Lebanon, New Hampshire, in April but was denied because the council was only serving “people of color” at that time.
“Earlier this year, New Hampshire established the use of racial and ethnic criteria to determine eligibility for COVID-19 vaccinations. Under the cover of ‘equity,’ the state’s racial set-asides excluded vulnerable people from access to the COVID-19 vaccine because of their race, national origin, and skin color. These actions are destructive to public health and patently illegal under our bedrock civil rights laws,” the complaint states.
The denial came as the state began to roll out its vaccine “equity” initiative, using millions of federal dollars obtained through the OCR parent agency the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services specifically designated for COVID-19 shots. ...
Story at The Federalist
