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This doesn't seem like a hard question to answer. Black americans are underserved by the health care system in basically all other ways. They see fewer doctor

This doesn't seem like a hard question to answer. Black americans are underserved by the health care system in basically all other ways. They see fewer doctors, have fewer clinics in neighborhoods where they make up majorities, get fewer referrals from the same doctors, get discharged faster and receive less treatment for the same conditions... I don't have links, but studies like this are everywhere. So, to me the question is just "Are black americans actually responding differently to the vaccine campaign at all, or are we just measuring an effect that's been there forever?"

dudeinjapan 5y ago
Access to clinics is not the limiting factor here. One can get a vaccine in 10 minutes by walking into any Walmart, Walgreens, or CVS. Even barbershops are giving them.
- Mountain_Skies 5y ago
  In urban areas you're right but I wonder about those who live in rural areas. Having spent part of my youth in a rural area that was majority black, my first instinct would be to set up clinics at churches. Not everyone has a way to get to the county seat during business hours when the county health department is open but one way or another, pretty much everyone found a way to get to church on Sunday.
  - dudeinjapan 5y ago
    1 - https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/chart-gallery/gallery/chart-detail/?chartId=99538 https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/chart-gallery/gallery... Blacks made up 7.8 percent of the rural and 13.1 percent of the urban population. 2 - https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/geography/guidance/geo-areas/urban-rural/ua-facts.html https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/geography/guidance/g... US population is urban: 249,253,271, rural: 59,492,276 Doing some math, ~12% of the black population is rural, and moreover, other ethnic groups represent a larger share of the rural pop. For the sake of this analysis, rural lack of access to vaccines does not explain low vaccination rates among blacks as a whole.

dudeinjapan 5y ago

Access to clinics is not the limiting factor here. One can get a vaccine in 10 minutes by walking into any Walmart, Walgreens, or CVS. Even barbershops are giving them.

Mountain_Skies 5y ago
In urban areas you're right but I wonder about those who live in rural areas. Having spent part of my youth in a rural area that was majority black, my first instinct would be to set up clinics at churches. Not everyone has a way to get to the county seat during business hours when the county health department is open but one way or another, pretty much everyone found a way to get to church on Sunday.
- dudeinjapan 5y ago
  1 - https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/chart-gallery/gallery/chart-detail/?chartId=99538 https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/chart-gallery/gallery... Blacks made up 7.8 percent of the rural and 13.1 percent of the urban population. 2 - https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/geography/guidance/geo-areas/urban-rural/ua-facts.html https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/geography/guidance/g... US population is urban: 249,253,271, rural: 59,492,276 Doing some math, ~12% of the black population is rural, and moreover, other ethnic groups represent a larger share of the rural pop. For the sake of this analysis, rural lack of access to vaccines does not explain low vaccination rates among blacks as a whole.