According to research, vaccination rates for blacks and Hispanic Americans are 50 percent worse than for whites.
African Americans make up more than 12 percent of the population, but only 5.4 percent have had at least one shot.
White Americans make up 60 percent of the population and a similar percentage have received the vaccine.
In New York City, blacks make up almost a quarter of the population, but only 11 percent got a shot.
Hispanics make up 29 percent of the population, but according to Bloomberg, they received only 15 percent of the available recordings.
And when a mass vaccination site opened in a mostly Latin American and black neighborhood in Upper Manhattan, white New Yorkers flocked in and received most of the shots on offer when it opened Jan. 14.
Mayor Bill de Blasio called the incident “outrageous” and added during a conference call on Sunday: “We are clearly seeing a profound inequality that needs to be addressed aggressively and creatively.
“We have a profound problem of distrust and hesitation, especially in color communities.”
But the same pattern persists across the country. More than 60 percent of the people who took their first pictures are white – according to their proportion of the population. That comes from data released Monday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Only 5.4 percent of Americans who have received at least one COVID-9 vaccine are black, although African Americans make up more than 12 percent of the US population and are at higher risk of developing or dying from coronavirus.
Similar differences persist among Latinx folks, who represent only 11.5 percent of Americans who fired their first shots, despite an estimated 18.7 percent of the population. Can we copy more of this?
In New York City, blacks and Latinx each make up about twice the proportion of the population compared to the proportion of vaccines they received
Vaccination rates are in line with white population, but according to CDC data, blacks and Latin Americans only made up 5.4% and 11.5% of the vaccinations, despite making up 12.5% and 19% of the US population, respectively
In Washington Heights – a predominantly black and Hispanic neighborhood in Manhattan – a mass vaccination station was set up to expedite the adoption of high-risk communities
More than 60 percent of people who took their first recordings are white – according to their proportion of the population – according to data released by the CDC on Monday.
Only 5.4 percent of Americans who have received at least one COVID-9 vaccine are black, although African Americans make up more than 12 percent of the US population and are at higher risk of developing or dying from coronavirus.
Similar differences persist among Latinx folks, who represent only 11.5 percent of Americans who fired their first shots, despite an estimated 18.7 percent of the population.
The Biden government is committed to eliminating the huge racial disparities in COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths.
However, during a press conference on Monday, Biden’s coronavirus response team largely addressed the problem, saying little could be done to address the racial vaccination differences until data is available on the more data on the aces of those vaccinated exist.
According to the CDC, only about half of the vaccinations reported to the agency contained race and ethnicity data.
Vaccinating black and Latin American communities is as important as it is challenging to contain the pandemic in the United States.
Black Americans are 1.8 times more likely to get COVID-19, four times more likely to be hospitalized for the infection, and 2.6 times more likely to die when they test positive for coronavirus compared to whites.
Latinx Americans face almost identical risks: According to the CDC, they are 1.7 times more likely to be infected, 4.1 times more likely to be hospitalized, and 2.8 times more likely to die of COVID-19.
The CDC, the White House, and state officials all have states that vaccinating vulnerable communities – and minority Americans in particular – is a top priority.
And yet the vaccination data do not confirm this prioritization.
Mayor Bill de Blasio called the incident “outrageous” and added during a conference call on Sunday: “We are clearly seeing a profound inequality that needs to be addressed aggressively and creatively
The mass vaccination center at the Armory Track & Field Center had to set strict rules, according to which 60 percent of the vaccine doses there are reserved for residents of the most severely affected and largely Latin American and black communities in the surrounding Washington Heights and neighboring districts (dark red,). Upper Manhattan)
To date, 31.8 million first and second doses of COVID-19 have been given to Americans, starting with healthcare workers who were given priority access to admissions as of December 14, 2020.
Black and Latin American people made up 16 percent and 13 percent of healthcare workers, respectively, in 2019.
So it stands to reason that the vaccination rates documented by the CDC in the first month of vaccination would reflect these numbers – but they are insufficient.
Hospitals and nursing homes reported much higher rejection rates than expected in the first few weeks of the rollout.
An Illinois veterans home reported that 80 percent of residents said “yes” to the vaccination – but 80 percent of staff said “no”.
However, the problem extends well beyond rejection, especially now that access has expanded beyond health workers.
In New York City, for example, whites have received nearly half of the vaccinations but make up less than a third of the population, according to Bloomberg.
Latinx folks got only 15 percent of the city’s vaccines, but they make up 29 percent of the population.
The mass vaccination station in the Armory Track & Field Center had to set strict rules according to which 60 percent of the vaccine doses there are reserved for residents of the predominantly Latin American and black communities in the surrounding Washington Heights and the neighboring districts.
As in most US cities, vaccination information lives largely online in New York City, and the easiest way to register for a slot is through a computer or smartphone.
But that too can lead to inequalities, stressed City Councilor Mark Levine.
“People who don’t have a computer, don’t have good internet, don’t know about technology, may have limited English and can’t get by. And that’s reflected in who shows up at those locations, ”he told CNN.
“It’s like The Hunger Games.”
