Slightly more than 6% of American adults have received at least the first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine — but a disproportionately small number of them are Black and Hispanic people.
"What we're seeing from the states that are currently reporting data on vaccination distribution by race and ethnicity is a consistent pattern that is really showing a mismatch between who's receiving the vaccine and who has been hardest hit by the pandemic," says Samantha Artiga, the director of the Racial Equity and Health Policy Program at the Kaiser Family Foundation.
The group has been tracking data from the 17 states that are publicly reporting vaccination patterns by race and ethnicity, and significant disparities are emerging.
In Mississippi, 15% of vaccinations have been received by Black people, while they account for 38% of coronavirus cases and 42% of deaths in the state. In Texas, Hispanic people make up 15% of those who have been vaccinated, compared to 44% of cases and nearly half of the deaths. TO READ ENTIRE ARTICLE, CLICK HERE...
HELLO...
The vaccine is being giving to AGE GROUPS not RACIAL GROUPS... and, it would seem rather stupid, to say the least, to make sure just as many blacks were vaccinated as whites if those blacks were not in these age groups... Democratic STUPIDITY always amazes me... not so much because they are STUPID but because their STUPIDITY does not allow them to logically think things through...
I am 73 years old and WHITE... so, should a black person who is 60 years old get the vaccine before me?
I am 73 years old and WHITE and have been fighting two kinds of cancer for over a decade along with a heart attack that left me with heart disease and a non-existent immune system... so, should a black person who is 65 years old get the vaccine before me?
ONLY 14% of our total population is BLACK...
Of course more whites are going to receive the COVID Vaccine than BLACKS...
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