Posted on 11/15/2021 10:59:12 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
The rollout of COVID-19 shots for elementary-age children has exposed another blind spot in the nation’s efforts to address pandemic inequalities: Health systems have released little data on the racial breakdown of youth vaccinations, and community leaders fear that Black and Latino kids are falling behind.
Only a handful of states have made public data on COVID-19 vaccinations by race and age, and the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention does not compile racial breakdowns either.
Despite the lack of hard data, public health officials and medical professionals are mindful of disparities and have been reaching out to communities of color to overcome vaccine hesitancy. That includes going into schools, messaging in other languages, deploying mobile vaccine units and emphasizing to skeptical parents that the shots are safe and powerfully effective.
Public health leaders believe racial gaps are driven by work and transportation barriers, as well as lingering reluctance and information gaps.
(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.com ...
Instead of bitching, they should be thankful (if it's even true).
LEAVE THE KIDS ALONE!
All kids have to prove vaccinations to attend school. All babies are on the same vax schedule for the first year. The clinics definitely give them. What do they want? Invitations? Door-to-door visits by a health nurse? At some point people have to take responsibility and stop making excuses. I see it my city. The more that is done, the less gets solved.
Either the schools are failing to do this simple check, or they are ignoring the law.
Is it a disparity if it is a choice made by an adult?
There is no law.
[Racial disparities in kids’ vaccinations are hard to track] == [race numbers are not coming out in a way that’s useful to Democrats]
Covid jabs are not vaccinations. They are experimental treatments.
Must... find... “racism”... everywhere...
Remember Tuskegee. The Blacks do.
Many of the folks don’t trust the government with their lives.
“Racial disparities in kids’ vaccinations are hard to track”
It’s amazing that a statement like that is put in to lead the problem in the direction of racial disparities and then defining the problem throiu8ghout the article of the blacks and latinos are just not coming in. So blame it on race”
Leave it to the AP to try to incite a problem. Sharpton and/or Jackson could buy the “news source” and then go into semi retirement.
wy69
You can’t repeat the Tuskegee experiment without tracking by race.
The horror!
I have relatives in KY that have never allowed vaccinations of any type for their kids—and all their kids are in school.
It depends where you are...
No data, but "leaders" want to be victims anyway.
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