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"As you may know, an FDA-authorized vaccine for COVID-19 is now available for free to all adults in the U.S. Do you think you will...?" # Definitely not get th

"As you may know, an FDA-authorized vaccine for COVID-19 is now available for free to all adults in the U.S. Do you think you will...?" # Definitely not get the vaccine | white: 65%, hispanic: 13%, black: 13% # Wait and see | white: 50%, hispanic: 27%, black: 14% # Unvaccinated adults | white: 57%, hispanic: 20%, black: 13% "Partisanship also plays a major role with more than half (58%) of the “definitely not” group identifying as Republican or Republican-leaning. In addition, religious identity also plays a role as White Evangelical Christians make up nearly twice the share of the “definitely not” group (32%) as the “wait and see” group." https://www.kff.org/coronavirus-covid-19/dashboard/kff-covid-19-vaccine-monitor-dashboard/ https://www.kff.org/coronavirus-covid-19/dashboard/kff-covid...

whymauri 5y ago
Some more relevant data here: https://archive.is/RrzbZ https://archive.is/RrzbZ >Polling data from the Kaiser Family Foundation released [0] Wednesday morning (week of August 4th) makes obvious the disparity in the importance of each group. It estimates that Black Americans make up about 13 percent of the unvaccinated population and 13 percent of the group that says it will never receive a dose of the vaccine. Republicans, by contrast, make up more than half of each group, including nearly 6 in 10 of those who say they won’t get a vaccine. [https://archive.is/NL5qA https://archive.is/NL5qA]
- kodah 5y ago
  What is the usefulness of including race data in polls like this? I'm French and I have little if nothing in common with other "white" people.
  - whymauri 5y ago
    Developing targeted campaigns to encourage vaccination. There is hesitancy in the US black population, especially in the South, to trust health government-based health institutions. There's also less access to healthcare resources. See: Tuskegee Syphilis Study as a case https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuskegee_Syphilis_Study https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuskegee_Syphilis_Study For Latinos, there's a language gap that needs to be overcome for large projects like this (other notable example is census hesitancy due to risk of deportation for family and friends). Anything that can get you or your household on a government record garners suspicion from the recently immigrated and those housing undocumented people (even if the current government says it's OK, who's the say the next one won't raid your home?). The television pundits definitely don't help. In my city, Cambridge, there was a huge vaccination push for the black population. It included priority access, more accessible clinics + hours, door-to-door advocacy/pamphlets, and getting support from local black institutions and community centers. Our rates for black residents shot up after that. The deeper you read into the historical of medical abuse and misinformation towards minorities and the poor in the US, the faster you realize why targeting and messaging matters.
    - kodah 5y ago
      I wasn't asking about minority groups, I was asking why the white population is being called out specifically when I have nothing to do with other white people. It feels incredibly dehumanizing at times.
nostromo 5y ago
> Definitely not get the vaccine white: 65% hispanic: 13% black: 13% Given US demographics, this is exactly what one would expect. > Unvaccinated adults white: 57% hispanic: 20% black: 13% Again, this shows white people as more vaccinated than other groups when accounting for population.
- caeril 5y ago
  It is shocking that this comment is downvoted by the supposedly math-loving pro-science HN crowd. Click through to the specific graph mentioned - that's precisely what it shows - demographic breakdown of response groups, NOT percent responding per group. I know this site leans heavily pro-vaccine, but we shouldn't be downvoting correct data analyses and upvoting grossly wrong interpretations because they confirm our biases.
enchiridion 5y ago
As others have pointed out, those numbers sum to 100% per question. Given population distributions, whites are less likely to be vaccine hesitant.

whymauri 5y ago

Some more relevant data here: https://archive.is/RrzbZ https://archive.is/RrzbZ >Polling data from the Kaiser Family Foundation released [0] Wednesday morning (week of August 4th) makes obvious the disparity in the importance of each group. It estimates that Black Americans make up about 13 percent of the unvaccinated population and 13 percent of the group that says it will never receive a dose of the vaccine. Republicans, by contrast, make up more than half of each group, including nearly 6 in 10 of those who say they won’t get a vaccine. [https://archive.is/NL5qA https://archive.is/NL5qA]

kodah 5y ago
What is the usefulness of including race data in polls like this? I'm French and I have little if nothing in common with other "white" people.
- whymauri 5y ago
  Developing targeted campaigns to encourage vaccination. There is hesitancy in the US black population, especially in the South, to trust health government-based health institutions. There's also less access to healthcare resources. See: Tuskegee Syphilis Study as a case https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuskegee_Syphilis_Study https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuskegee_Syphilis_Study For Latinos, there's a language gap that needs to be overcome for large projects like this (other notable example is census hesitancy due to risk of deportation for family and friends). Anything that can get you or your household on a government record garners suspicion from the recently immigrated and those housing undocumented people (even if the current government says it's OK, who's the say the next one won't raid your home?). The television pundits definitely don't help. In my city, Cambridge, there was a huge vaccination push for the black population. It included priority access, more accessible clinics + hours, door-to-door advocacy/pamphlets, and getting support from local black institutions and community centers. Our rates for black residents shot up after that. The deeper you read into the historical of medical abuse and misinformation towards minorities and the poor in the US, the faster you realize why targeting and messaging matters.
  - kodah 5y ago
    I wasn't asking about minority groups, I was asking why the white population is being called out specifically when I have nothing to do with other white people. It feels incredibly dehumanizing at times.

nostromo 5y ago

> Definitely not get the vaccine white: 65% hispanic: 13% black: 13% Given US demographics, this is exactly what one would expect. > Unvaccinated adults white: 57% hispanic: 20% black: 13% Again, this shows white people as more vaccinated than other groups when accounting for population.

caeril 5y ago
It is shocking that this comment is downvoted by the supposedly math-loving pro-science HN crowd. Click through to the specific graph mentioned - that's precisely what it shows - demographic breakdown of response groups, NOT percent responding per group. I know this site leans heavily pro-vaccine, but we shouldn't be downvoting correct data analyses and upvoting grossly wrong interpretations because they confirm our biases.

enchiridion 5y ago

As others have pointed out, those numbers sum to 100% per question. Given population distributions, whites are less likely to be vaccine hesitant.