Posted on 08/29/2022 8:15:09 PM PDT by DoodleBob
Vaccine hesitancy remains a public health challenge that cuts across the country as the COVID-19 pandemic drags on, but Republican voters and Black people are among the most hesitant to get the shot, according to a new Portland State University study.
Arun Pallathadka, a Ph.D. student in PSU's Earth, Environment and Society's program, and Heejun Chang, professor of geography, conducted a spatial analysis of vaccination data at the county level across the U.S. to identify the social, ecological and technological factors impacting vaccine rates.
Among the findings:
-Vaccine hesitancy is strong in many Republican counties across the U.S., especially in the Mountain States, Southwest and the South, which other research has shown to be fueled in part by the misinformation spread by politicians. In the Northeast, however, many Republican counties in the Virginias and New Jersey as well in New England states such as Maine and Vermont show higher vaccination rates, suggesting libertarian-leaning or moderate Republicans may differ on the issue of COVID-19 vaccines.
-Vaccine hesitancy is strong among the Black population, particularly in the South, Mountain States, Southwest as well as the Pacific Northwest. Prior research has shown that a combination of lack of healthcare access, medical racism and misinformation has led to that hesitancy.
-The most highly educated demographics are more likely to get vaccinated, and this trend is strong in many urbanized parts of the U.S., while populations with lower educational attainment show vaccine hesitancy in many of the relatively less urbanized counties in the South, Southwest and Mountain States.
-Populations with access to broadband internet and health facilities per 10,000 residents are also positively linked to vaccination rates. The researchers said that the findings indicate that a regional approach may better serve vaccination efforts than a universal approach.
"Public health officials and policymakers need to recognize that space matters to COVID-19 vaccination efforts. This study demonstrates how spatially explicitly health policies are required to boost vaccination rates, especially targeted towards significant local factors we have emphasized in the study." Arun Pallathadka, Ph.D. student in PSU's Earth, Environment and Society's program
The findings were published in Environmental Research: Health. Daikwon Han, an associate professor of epidemiology and biostatistics at Texas A&M, is also a co-author of the study.
Source:
Portland State University
Journal reference:
Pallathadka, A.K., et al. (2022) What explains spatial variations of COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy?: A social-ecological-technological systems approach. Environmental Research Health. doi.org/10.1088/2752-5309/ac8ac2.
“Hesitancy” means REJECTION.
“COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy found to be strong among Republican voters and Black people”
interesting ... maybe the blacks and Republicans will inherit the Earth ...
But not the Tuskegee Syphilis Study for Blacks, huh?
“Republican voters and Black people “
I’ve said before but I’ll say it again... what do these cohorts have in common? Both assume that white liberals are lying to them.
I am not “hesitant”.
I am hostile!
Republicans and black people are one and the same... We both killed a lot of democrats to save the Republic a little over a century ago. The irony is theDOJ was brought about to save blacks and Republicans in the south from lynching. The Department of Education was brought about to ensure black people who were republicans got an education. Yet here we are again with Democrats trying to destroy the Republic. Communism never sleeps.... neither can we.
It’s NOT a vaccine.
Anyone with a brain is hesitant to take the clot-shot. A second round of Nuremberg trials is coming.
Hesitancy? The government that shut down people’s lives are now coming at us with syringes? Oh yeah...These are the same individuals who attempted to overthrow Trump, that failed so they turned the election into a fraudulent fiasco. Now they want you to have multiple injections annually so everyone can be safe from the China virus, a virus they likely created. Gak~
Yet nearly everything we touch is still made in China...We’re being led by lunatics with bad intentions.
Can’t figure out why exactly the guinea pigs in the Tuskegee experiments would have a problem with Josef Fauci-Mengele s-perimentin’ on ‘em...
The most highly educated demographics are more likely to get vaccinated
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thats one way to get out of their student loans
“Highly-educated” is pollster-speak for woke, leftist pod-eaters.
There is still a “pandemic”
going on?
Proof that black people should become Republican voters.
Or they could stick with the guy said “You ain’t black!”
Their choice.
There’s no need for it any more.
It’s basically over and never was a threat to most of the population.
Those who died were more a result of medical negligence in not being treated because they wanted to push the vaxes and doctors were told to send people home to take their chances.
Reprehensible!
I take no drugs. The vaxx for me is over their dead bodies.
It’s seen as information...on where to expect more deaths.
Well let’s see. I’m White, have 2 grad degrees, live in a big city and have broadband internet and proudly remain a Pureblood.
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