Vaccine Distribution Updated Published A covid-19 vaccine station at the Martin Luther King Jr. Community Hospital. (Chava Sanchez/LAist) L.A. health officials have expressed concerns about low vaccination numbers among health care workers in South L.A. and other communities of color. Those concerns are valid — preliminary numbers show Blacks and Latinos are receiving fewer vaccinations as compared to white and Asian Angelenos. Some experts have attributed low vaccination numbers in more diverse neighborhoods to hesitancy and mistrust, especially among Black and brown communities (some of that mistrust is completely understandable, given the racist history of health care in the U.S.).