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one of the things that caught my eye in terms of vaccine requirements, the vatican is now putting in place a vaccine requirement. as a catholic, it s been interesting to me to hear people say they should get a religious exemption from the vcine because they re catholic. well, not only is the pope vaccinated, he will now start docking pay for vatican officials who don t get vaccinated. which i think will complicate the effort to make tt a religious exemption in this countr but we shall see. we have more so stay with us. se. we have more so stay with us who pays more for prescription drugs than anyone else in the world? americans do. and whose tax dollars does big pharma use to develop those same drugs? that s right. our tax dollars.
something that probably deserves more attention than it s getting. as recently as this summer, as recently as july, the percentage of white adult americans who reported getting at least one shot of the covid vaccine was 70%. that s according to a kaiser family foundation poll. compare that number in july to black adults, the number was just 65%, and for hispanic adult the number was 61%. so again this is huddle to have said they got in their first shot as of july. whites 70% blacks 65%, miss panics 61%. regional divides that was in july. but te a look at the new poll just released today by kaiser, shing that that gap has closed. and there s a different gap now that explains what s going on in the country with their vaccination rates. look at the gap closing. as a baseline the number of all american adults a report getting at least one shot now, that number for all american
so this is interesting, and this is a real change, and this is something that probably deserves more attention than it s getting. as recently as this summer, as recently as july, the percentage of white adult americans who reported getting at least one shot of the covid vaccine was 70%. that s accordingo a kaiser family foundation poll. compare that number in july to black adults. that number was 65%, and for hispanic adults, that number was 61%. this is adults who got their first shot. as of july, whites, 70%, blacks, 65%, hispanics 65%. racial divide. that was in july.
in statistically significant terms, have those numbers tightened up? yes, in our surveys they have. we go back to april and may early on in the vaccination effort. what we find in oururveys is that any black or hispanic adults were telling us they weren t yet ready to make a decision about getting the vaccines. they had questions and concerns both related to side effects but also to access to the vaccine or time off from work. we found tha gap that used to exist between bla and hispanic americans and white americans in terms of vaccination has cloetsd closed in our surveys. in terms of the divide that remains with political party affiliation, is there anything in your survey data that indicates, other than calling yourself a democrat or republican, what might be driving those decisions? you just spoke about the kinds of concerns that were driving what we ve previously seen as a