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Black Americans are being hospitalized and dying from COVID-19 at higher rates than white Americans, says bioethicist Esther Jones.
Still, many Black people are skeptical about receiving the vaccine due to distrust of the American medical system.
Jones says healthcare workers and policymakers can help close racial health gap by understanding the source of this skepticism.
Black Americans have been the least inclined of any racial or ethnic group to say they d get vaccinated against the coronavirus. The proportion of Black people who said they ll probably or definitely take the shot has risen over time but even by mid-January, with two COVID-19 vaccines authorized foremergency use in the US, only 35% of Black survey respondents said they d get it as soon as they could, or already had gotten the shot.
Vaccine Hesitancy Among Black Americans Caused by Long History of Medical Abuse
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By Esther Jones, Associate Professor of English, affiliate with Africana Studies and Women s & Gender Studies, Clark University
Black Americans have been the least inclined of any racial or ethnic group to say they’d get vaccinated against the coronavirus. The proportion of Black people who said they’ll probably or definitely take the shot has risen over time but even by mid-January, with two COVID-19 vaccines authorized for emergency use in the U.S., only 35% of Black survey respondents said they’d get it as soon as they could, or already had gotten the shot.
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