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As of August 16, 40% of African Americans were vaccinated. https://www.kff.org/other/state-indicator/percent-of-total-population-that-has-received-a-covid-19-v
by thesis 5y ago
As of August 16, 40% of African Americans were vaccinated.
https://www.kff.org/other/state-indicator/percent-of-total-population-that-has-received-a-covid-19-vaccine-by-race-ethnicity/ https://www.kff.org/other/state-indicator/percent-of-total-p...
- belltaco 5y agoI wonder how many of them are older people who were turned off by [1] or children of older people who warned them about it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuskegee_Syphilis_Study https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuskegee_Syphilis_Study
- mthoms 5y agoThis one [0] says White adults:70% Black adults:65% Democrats: 86% Republicans:54% [0] https://journalistsresource.org/health/vaccine-hesitancy-research-roundup-data-sources/ https://journalistsresource.org/health/vaccine-hesitancy-res...
- anoonmoose 5y agoThe discrepancy is likely due to to the vaccine not being approved for children yet; the 40% figure is misleading
- xadhominemx 5y agoBlack people and conservative Republicans both have (bad) idiosyncratic reasons for rejecting the vaccines. I don’t think this data contradicts the parents point about the partisan nature of vaccine rejection.