Undocumented Immigrants Should get COVID-19 Vaccinations — For All Our Health

Surgeon General Jerome Adams is encouraging undocumented immigrants in the U.S. to get vaccinated for COVID-19 when shots are available, arguing that for the sake of public health, immigration status should not be a barrier to the vaccine, John Bowden reports for The Hill. Adams emphasized in an interview Sunday with CBS’s “Face the Nation” that no information gathered from patients during vaccination could be used against them, and no one should be denied a shot based on their immigration status. However, as Marco della Cava, Daniel Gonzalez and Rebecca Plevin note for USA Today, “after years of isolationist and punitive immigration policies from the Trump administration, many immigrants — whose physical and fiscal health has, along with many people of color, been disproportionately hurt by the pandemic — might be unwilling to come forward and get vaccinated.”

KJ