https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/vermont-to-give-minority-residents-priority-for-covid-vaccines/ > States have tried with limited success to get covid vaccines to people of color, who have been disproportionately killed and hospitalized by the virus. > Starting Thursday, Vermont explicitly gave Black adults and people from other minority communities priority status for vaccinations. It follows Montana, which in January announced that Native Americans and other people of color, because they are at higher risk of complications from covid-19, would be allowed to receive the vaccine.