DREDF’s Comment Letter on the NASEM COVID-19 Vaccine Allocation Framework

October 1, 2020
The Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund (“DREDF”) appreciates the opportunity to provide comment to the National Academies Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) on its Discussion Draft of a Preliminary Framework for Equitable Allocation of COVID-19 Vaccine (draft). DREDF is a national cross-disability law and policy center that protects and advances the civil and human rights of people with disabilities through legal advocacy, training, education, and development of legislation and public policy. In the more than 40 years that have passed since our founding, we have persistently fought for the right of people with disabilities to be fully integrated within all aspects of community life. DREDF’s work is based on the knowledge that people with disabilities of varying ages, racial and ethnic backgrounds, genders, and sexual orientations are fully capable of achieving self-sufficiency and contributing to their communities with access to needed services and supports and the reasonable accommodations and modifications enshrined in U.S. law.,
October 1, 2020
The Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund (“DREDF”) appreciates the opportunity to provide comment to the National Academies Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) on its Discussion Draft of a Preliminary Framework for Equitable Allocation of COVID-19 Vaccine (draft). DREDF is a national cross-disability law and policy center that protects and advances the civil and human rights of people with disabilities through legal advocacy, training, education, and development of legislation and public policy. In the more than 40 years that have passed since our founding, we have persistently fought for the right of people with disabilities to be fully integrated within all aspects of community life. DREDF’s work is based on the knowledge that people with disabilities of varying ages, racial and ethnic backgrounds, genders, and sexual orientations are fully capable of achieving self-sufficiency and contributing to their communities with access to needed services and supports and the reasonable accommodations and modifications enshrined in U.S. law.,