Xinhua | Updated: 2021-05-21 09:36 Share CLOSE Andrea Moore awaits her COVID-19 vaccine at Whitney M. Young Elementary School on April 2, 2021 in Louisville, Kentucky. [Photo/Agencies]
WASHINGTON Months into the United States inoculation campaign, Black Americans COVID-19 vaccination rates are still lagging behind, while Hispanics are closing the gap and Native Americans show the highest rates overall, latest federal data has shown.
Only 22 percent of Black Americans have gotten a shot, and Black rates still trail those of Whites in almost every state, according to the data obtained and analysed by Kaiser Health News from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) which gave a sweeping national look at the race and ethnicity of vaccinated people on a state-by-state basis.
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It started with the op-eds. Even before COVID-19vaccines were widely available, newspapers opinion pages warned that some Black people would be hesitant to get the shot. Those columns often referenced the infamous 1930s Tuskegee Syphilis Study, during which doctors withheld treatment from Black men with syphilis, as evidence of lingering well-founded mistrust that might drag down vaccination rates in the Black community.MORE: The risks unvaccinated Americans are weighing
That theory wasn t just fueled by newspapers. Former President Barack Obama and former NBA player Charles Barkley both referenced Tuskegee during an April NBC special to encourage Black Americans to get vaccinated. I’m telling all my friends, Yo man, forget what happened back in the day, every Black person, please go out and get vaccinated, Barkley said.
A Princeton woman accused of stabbing her estranged husband to death in January 2020 may be close to a settlement in before her case goes to trial this fall.
Kimberly Smothers is charged with the murder of 43-year old Matt Smothers. She and her attorney Andrea Moore appeared virtually before Circuit Judge C.A. Woodall Tuesday afternoon at which time Moore told the judge she believes they are close to resolving the case.
click to download audioKimberly Smothers was arrested on January 8, 2020, after Princeton police investigated a stabbing in the alley behind 114 Ratliff Street that morning just before 6:00. When officers arrived, they found Matt Smothers in the backyard of the residence with a stab wound to his left leg. Police said a witness told officers that Matt’s estranged wife, Kimberly, had pulled a knife and stabbed him during a verbal argument and then fled the scene.
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