https://sahanjournal.com/coronavirus/latino-id-requirement-vaccine-registration-minnesota/
...............Asking for specific types of IDs also breaks state guidelines, said Erin McHenry, a spokesperson for the Minnesota Department of Health.
“We want providers to be prioritizing people who are currently eligible, but they are not restricted to only vaccinating Minnesota residents,” McHenry said. “When you get your COVID-19 vaccine, you will be asked to share your full name, date of birth, address, phone number, and gender. This is so the vaccination can be recorded. But you will never be asked about your immigration status when getting the COVID-19 vaccine.”
Latinos in Minneota are getting infected with COVID-19 at disproportionately high rates and being vaccinated against the virus at disproportionately low rates. Latinos account for 9 percent of all of the state’s positive COVID-19 cases, but just 5 percent of the total state population. Just 1.6 percent of the Minneosota’s vaccinated population are Latino.
Other Latinos in Minnesota describe similar ID barriers
Rudolfo Gutierrez, executive director of St. Paul-based Hispanic Advocacy and Community Empowerment Through Research (HACER), said that he’s heard stories similar to Ascension’s from undocumented Latinos since vaccines became available to people 65 and older.
His office has received around 20 phone calls from people around the state who ran into similar problems....................................
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