Posted on 02/20/2021 7:10:48 PM PST by conservative98
Anthony Fauci, the nation's top infectious diseases expert, said on Friday that racial disparities in COVID-19 vaccination are "very disturbing."
Fauci made the remark during an interview on MSNBC's "The ReidOut." He and host Joy Reid were discussing data that showed white populations were getting vaccinated at higher rates than communities of color.
"They're getting a double whammy against them. Not only do they have the propensity because of their jobs out in the community to get infected; they have the underlying conditions that make them more likely to get a serious outcome," Fauci said of the underserved populations. "The proportions that you showed are very disturbing."
While Fauci recognized a sense of "understandable vaccine hesitancy" among minority communities, he noted that it is important to actively expand vaccine access to those populations.
"We've got to really extend ourselves in the community to get the access to minority populations that they don't have," Fauci said, noting that President Biden has actively set up vaccination centers in areas heavily populated by minority communities.
Fauci also said he's been working to directly address vaccine hesitancy in communities of color.
"What we've been trying to do, and I take this very seriously, is extend yourself to the African American and Latino populations and explain to them that we totally respect why you're being hesitant," Fauci said. "But that history gets passed down, and you've go to say, look, we respect your concern, but these are the two or three reasons why you really need to get vaccinated, for your own health, for the health of your community and literally for the health of the entire nation."
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
when you reserve the shot for only the elderly ... which are nearly all white... and then are surprised that more whites are getting shots..
wth?
are these people REALLY this stupid?
That Colorado rep today called it Fort Pelosi.
LOL Funny! Which rep was that?
Anyone wants my Covid shot is more than welcome to it.
I am white and I don’t trust it.
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DITTO!!! (RIP RL)
I don’t imagine they would say we WEREN’T racist because have no intention of getting the ‘shot’????
Press reports say Pelosi also plans to keep thousands of National Guard troops at the Capitol beyond mid-March — possibly into the fall.
Republicans want to know why:
“I’m calling it Fort Pelosi at this point,” Rep. Michael Waltz (R-Fla.), a Green Beret, told Fox Business Network Tuesday morning.
https://cnsnews.com/article/national/susan-jones/rep-waltz-calls-capitol-hill-fort-pelosi
Lauren Boebert. The one that had guns on her shelf this week during some hearing.
They can have mine...
There are more than just ‘elderly’ who have been given shots. Front-line workers have been prioritized, too.
And a lot of old folks are Black (I don’t know if you’ve watched the news lately, but many of our over-centenarians are Black people. And many, many of the ‘front-line’ workers in hospitals and other crucial areas are also Black - in my area, probably a very large portion of the front-line workers are.
Fauci isn’t bothering to think - he’s just playing politics.
Well doctor fauchi you can give a brown person my shot ok
Thanks for the link but my whole point was that there are no numbers given in the article. Thats what makes it a gaslighting piece.
Has there EVER been a bigger Attention Whore than Fraudi?
Thanks! I know she is. Quite a firebrand. :)
Wish she was my rep but I’m stuck with Neguse.
You might know him as one of the “impeachment managers.” {spit}
Not familiar with that. I will look them up. I avoided the impeachment nonsense as far as acknowledging any ‘managers’, both time in fact.
Fort Pelozi. The Operations Center of the military junta occupying D.C.
I hardly watched any of it either. But I saw a few clips and recognized Neguse at the lectern. I didn’t even listen to any audio of it.
America was a MUCH higher percentage white in the past.. thus the elderly was a representation of past demographics. On top of that, minorities have shorter life spans. So when you add those to facts together, of courses far more whites are going to be getting shots at this point in time. That doesn’t mean there are NO elderly minorities, but they are a much smaller percentage of the elderly than the population at large.
Yup. Notice how Fauci goes along with the gaslighting. What a hack.
Fauxcy is deeply troubled and definitely disturbed.
What’s it his business what color vaccine recipients are?
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