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Black Americans Are Getting Covid Vaccines at Lower Rates Than White Americans
- Bostonian 6y ago"Access issues and mistrust rooted in structural racism appear to be the major factors leaving Black health care workers behind in the quest to vaccinate the nation." Exaggerating the incidence of racism has consequences like this.
- Lammy 6y agoHey Siri, what is the Tuskegee Syphilis Study?
- uberman 6y agoJust a heads up that I expected to see this discrepancy explained away via understandable mistrust on the part of Black Americans, so I did a little back of the envelope math based on an NPR survey of people indicating they would be willing to get vaccinated and this article. My conclusion is that given a state like North Carolina with about 30% Black healthcare workers and their assumed willingness to be vaccinated as compared to their White, Asian, and Latinx counterparts I expected to see a 20% rate rather than a 10% rate. To me it seems clear that there is much more than Black apprehension at play here.
- vanattab 6y agoI don't know what the ratio of Black Americans / White Americans are in the healthcare and in nursing homes but perhaps that plays some role in the discrepancy here? If so we should see numbers closer to the the general population in the next phases of the roll out targeted by age?