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Posted on 06/08/2021 11:03:50 AM PDT by SJackson
Less than a quarter of Black Americans have received their first Covid-19 shot. That's less than other racial and ethnic groups tracked by the CDC.
The Biden administration knew the key to a successful Covid vaccination campaign would be reaching the most vulnerable populations. But more than five months in, even a blueprint that’s worked with other ethnic and racial groups isn’t doing enough to win over Black Americans.
Less than a quarter of Black Americans had received their first Covid-19 shot as of June 7 based on available federal data, amid a weekslong stagnation that has defied the government’s ramped-up effort to accelerate vaccinations and reach the nation’s most vulnerable communities.
The slowdown has put Black Americans behind the pace set over the past month by other racial and ethnic groups tracked by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The trend line worries health officials and experts who say the immunization drive is running into a particularly complex web of distrust, outreach challenges and stubborn barriers to access.
“It’s a tough layer that we have to address — it requires relationship building and it’s going to take a little longer,” said Octavio Martinez, executive director of the Hogg Foundation for Mental Health, who sits on the White House’s Covid-19 Health Equity Task Force. “We have a systemic issue here.”
One of the task force's first assignments was recommending ways to build trust in the vaccines and effectively roll them out to those marginalized communities — chief among them Black Americans who are dying from Covid-19 at disproportionate rates. Some early ideas were incorporated into the administration vaccination plan crafted within the White House, task force members said. Yet as the panel has shifted its focus to other, long-term health equity issues in recent months, vaccine disparities have persisted.
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You told them to get it, guess they’re not really black Joe.
So people who had the Tuskegee experiment inflicted on them unwittingly, don’t want to take an experimental vaccine, pushed by a virulent racist with a decades long record of saying absolutely despicable racist things? Do tell…
Blacks are street smart. When libs come around giving free stuff, they’re either Sodomites, Election Campaigners, or Medical Experimenters.
Yet according to the media polls, it is only MAGA Republicans who are refusing “the jab”.
Perhaps the Feral government will pull out an old trick and send Blankets in fact it was smallpox instead of wasting their time with the slow vaccine.
This government has become too powerful and too coercive to allow any personal freedoms.
“Yet according to the media polls, it is only MAGA Republicans who are refusing “the jab”.”
Perhaps both can be true ;)
Hey now wait a dang minute. Pretty sure they meant white suprema-cyst/terrorists/Trump supporters are the ones not getting the shots because well, anti govt types. JS.
I can’t wait for the Biden crew to put out a public service announcements in Ebonics, over a big plate of barbecued ribs.
I have to admire the blackies for resisting the govt.....
just say no....
This surprises me because it has been my observation that the blacks tend to be bigger mask wearers than others. Perhaps I’m mistaken.
Could it be that the middle-class blacks( the ones I usually see) are the covid-Karens but not so much in the ghetto?
What do y’all think?
Maybe Jen Psaki can learn to speak jive. Like in airplane.
“You ain’t Black.”
Should black people trust the Covid vaccine? Science with Soul.
Every. Single. One.
And in my city there are several commercials for free vaccines run by a local black church during the late evening news at 10pm.
Octavio drops all the government speak catch phrases. A real trained idiot. Count on nothing of value ever coming from his gutless involvement.
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“Perhaps the Feral government will pull out an old trick and send Blankets in fact it was smallpox instead of wasting their time with the slow vaccine.”
That whole ‘blankets with smallpox’ thing is a complete fabrication that comes from a not very good old movie. Only fools keep repeating it.
Yes, that is the impression I have gotten from a few liberals, who are peripherally in my life. Only the evil Trump supporters are holding out....
I'm sure you noticed the difference in media coverage of vaccine rejectors based on race.
When it's the whites, they're described as anti-vax science deniers, conspiracy theory Trump voters, ignorant, etc.
When it's blacks, it's because of a "complex web of distrust, outreach challenges and stubborn barriers to access."
A tone of sneering condescension vs. sympathy and concern.
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