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Study: 80% of Bay Area residents to get COVID-19 vaccine; may be a good number for herd immunity
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Student pharmacist Wilbur Quimba dilutes vials of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at University Medical Center of Southern Nevada on Dec. 16, 2020, in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Ethan Miller/Getty Images/TNS)Ethan Miller/TNS
A new report found that 80% of people who live in the San Francisco Bay Area would be willing to get the COVID-19 vaccine once it s available to them.
According to the survey, conducted by the California Health Care Foundation, 71% of Californians overall would be game for immunization. (Researchers gathered and interviewed a state-representative sample of more than 1,500 adults.)
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It’s not just L.A. County. My colleagues also found that Latinx enclaves across California have also been hit hard by the pandemic. Places like the Central Valley and the Coachella Valley big agricultural hubs and the borderlands of San Ysidro and Calexico are being ravaged.
Latinxs account for nearly half of California’s 20,000 COVID-19 deaths, despite only accounting for 38% of the state’s population.
It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to understand why our community is being hit disproportionately: Not many of us have the luxury and privilege of working from home.
You’re more likely to become infected the more you interact with people, and if you’re an essential worker, which Latinxs tend to be, you’re interacting with people on a regular basis (that’s if you’re lucky to be getting good hours).