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Vaccine Hesitancy and the Long Shadow of Racism in U.S. Health Care
Nearly a third of Black Americans are taking a wait-and-see approach to the Covid vaccines or will only take one if required. What’s driving this?
Patrick T. Fallon/Getty Images As we rapidly approach the point where the Covid-19 vaccine is available to all those who want it, the key constraint on reaching a sufficiently high level of vaccinations to achieve herd immunity is the hesitancy of certain groups to get vaccinated. The latest survey data from the Kaiser Family Foundation breaks them down. As one can see in the first chart, ten percent of Black adults refuse to get vaccinated which, fortunately, is down from 27 percent in October 2020 with seven percent saying they will only get vaccinated if forced to and another 24 percent reporting a wait-and-see attitude. Although a higher percentage of whites say they will refuse a Covid vaccination outright, a third fewer will get one only if required or take a