Posted on 09/29/2021 9:40:24 PM PDT by nickcarraway
In a survey of parents in metro Chicago, nearly half of Black parents -- 48% -- said they were reluctant to have their kids vaccinated against COVID-19, researchers say.
That's significantly higher than the 33% of Hispanic parents and 26% of White parents who expressed vaccine hesitancy, the findings showed.
"As vaccines are becoming available to younger children, and with continued spikes in COVID-19 cases, it is of the utmost importance that we are able to widely distribute the vaccine," said study co-author Dr. Jennifer Kusma, a pediatrician at Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago.
"We especially need to reach the more vulnerable and hesitant populations to help reduce the substantial health inequities we have seen during this pandemic," she said in a hospital news release.
For the study, Kusma and her colleagues surveyed parents of children under 18 years of age living in Chicago and the surrounding suburbs. Responses from more than 1,400 participants were analyzed.
Overall, the study found, 33% of parents were hesitant about the COVID-19 vaccine for their children.
The survey was conducted in June 2020, before the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine was approved for use in 12- to 17-year-olds.
Pfizer-BioNTech submitted data to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Sept. 28 that they said showed their vaccine is safe and effective for 5- to 11-year-olds, as well.
But persuading some parents to have their kids vaccinated may be a tough sell, the survey suggests.
Besides Black parents, parents with public health insurance were also more reluctant to have their kids get COVID-19 shots, at 41%, than parents of children with private insurance, at 26%, the researchers found.
"We found that parents who turn to family, internet and health care providers for COVID-19 information were less likely to report vaccine hesitancy for their child," Kusma added.
The survey findings were recently published this month in the journal BMC Public Health.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has more about the safety of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID vaccine.
So in other words those who do not blindly accept the PR storm of misinformation pushed by Big Pharma PR firms and their paid for Government toadies are less likely to buy the Vaccination propaganda
Recent polling data showed Republicans and Independent had a much better understanding of actually covid hospitalization and mortality rates then Democrat. That indicates the gap in facts vrs propaganda being presented in the Covid debate by the establishment media.
So it seems the facts are actually on the side of the “vac hesitant” and not on the side of the vac propagandists,
Sounds like many folks are not a fan of the internet.
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Reports it is “less likely” to report.
“We found that parents who turn to family, internet and health care providers for COVID-19 information were less likely to report vaccine hesitancy for their child,” Kusma added.
Who the hell would self-describe as "vaccine-hesitant?!"
I'm vaccine-skeptical!
Regards,
Blacks are going to peel off Joseph Stolen.
His behind the curtain folks are revealing the Democrat party
for exactly what it is.
I’ve seen some pretty strong outspoken Leftists who are
starting to sound awfully Conservative on the vaccine
issue. One of them was telling how it opened his eyes
to a lot more than the vaccine problem too.
>> the study found, 33% of parents were hesitant about the COVID-19 vaccine for their children.
Every damn parent should be prepared to put down any predator/vaxhole that gets near his/her child.
I have a new term for those who take the vaccine-— vaccine collaborators.
What? Zombies or chimeras doesn’t work?
How about Jacovid Witnesses?
Black white supremacists.
They otta know, had shit like this done to them many times in the past.
Well the Democrats performed horrid experiments on blacks in the past.
They have good reason.
So this means the coupflu shot is white supremacy, right?
Read an article that said most of the jab hostile are highly educated.
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