February 1, 2022
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/941897
Introduction:
caltrek's comment: Actually, I think this is really old news. Still, it is good to have a study that confirms initial impressions and reports. As I recall, increased availability among minority communities allowed them to pull even with majority communities. Politically and socially conservative majority groups are now particularly at risk due to continued vaccine hesitancy. Black and Hispanic leaders, in the meantime, have done much to dispel hesitancy among their groups. At least, that is my impression.BOSTON -- People from racial and ethnic minorities in the United States and the United Kingdom were up to three times as likely to report being unsure or unwilling to get a COVID-19 vaccine during the initial vaccine rollout compared to white participants, found a study published in Nature Communications. But among those who wanted the vaccine, Blacks in the U.S. were less likely to receive the vaccine than whites, a disparity that wasn’t present in the U.K. “Our study suggests that lack of access to the COVID-19 vaccine among minority populations in the U.S., rather than lower willingness to receive the vaccine, may have played a greater role in the racial-ethnic disparities we experienced in the early phases of the U.S. vaccination campaign,” says senior author Andrew T. Chan, MD, MPH, director of Epidemiology at the Mass General Cancer Center
