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A deep-seated distrust of government spurred by racism in public health practices has been cited as one of the main reasons for lower COVID-19 vaccine rates among Black and Hispanic populations.
But white Ohioans – who have been vaccinated at the highest rate among all the major racial and ethnic groups in the state – are much more likely to be wary of the government’s involvement with the vaccine than their Black or Hispanic neighbors, according to a new Household Pulse Survey from the U.S. Census Bureau.
Just under 20% of white respondents in Ohio cited lack of trust in the government as a reason for not getting a COVID-19 vaccine, according to the online survey conducted Feb. 3-15.
University Hospitals
The focus of the new webinar series is the underrepresented population around the health center, named for the Rev. Otis Moss Jr.
The Ohio Legislative Black Caucus is calling on Gov. Mike DeWine to prioritize getting the COVID-19 vaccine to Black Ohioans. And the head of a medical center in a predominantly Black Cleveland neighborhood agrees that expanded access is needed.
Dr. Carla Harwell is medical director of University Hospitals Otis Moss Jr. Health Center in the Fairfax neighborhood. She says there are likely several reasons for the low vaccine rate among Black people in Cuyahoga County.
She agrees with the OLBC that many Black neighborhoods simply don’t have the kinds of establishments where vaccines are being offered namely, grocery stores and pharmacies. And she says Black patients may be skeptical of providers who don’t look like them.
Rep. Emilia Sykes
While the ascension of Kamala Harris is certainly a sign of progress, we still have a lot of time to make up for in Ohio. Helen Rankin, Ohio’s first Black woman lawmaker, joined the Ohio House of Representatives in 1978 98 years after George Washington Williams, the first Black man to be elected to the Ohio legislature in 1880. Black women have only been represented in the legislature for 43 years and this lag has dramatically impacted policy and the trajectory of our state.
Representing my hometown in the Ohio House as the minority leader has been the honor of a lifetime, but being a young, outspoken Black woman with the nerve to have ambition comes with its own share of challenges. I started my first term in 2015 and I was routinely stopped, searched and questioned about why I was at the Statehouse. It s a question I found peculiar since I was elected to be there by the people in my hometown, the birthplace of champions. This line of questioning was
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