Hispanics' doubts about vaccines against covid-19 4:25
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While racial and ethnic disparities in covid-19 vaccination have improved in the United States, black and Hispanic people remain underrepresented among those vaccinated, according to an analysis released Wednesday by the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF). ).
Black people make up 12% of the United States population, but only 9% of those people have received at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine.
Hispanics make up 17% of the nation's population, but only 15% have received at least one dose of the vaccine.
This trend is true in most states, according to KFF, although the “size of these differences varies between states and the number of states where the proportion of vaccines received by black and Hispanic people is more proportional to their proportion of the population. total and / or its proportion of cases or deaths in the state is growing.
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Over the past two weeks, the racial and ethnic balance of those who started vaccinations has shifted, with whites representing a smaller proportion.
Hispanics made up 28% of those who received their first dose in the past 14 days, an overrepresentation of their share of the population.
Blacks accounted for about 11%, which is better than their current representation among those vaccinated, but still less than their representation in the overall US population.
Among the 41 states that report racial and ethnic data on people who have been vaccinated, the proportion of white people who have received at least one dose (44%) is about 1.4 times higher than the proportion of black people (31%) and approximately 1.3 times higher than the proportion of Hispanics who have been vaccinated (35%).
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In four states, however, the proportion of white people who have been vaccinated is more than twice the proportion of black people: Hawaii, Iowa, Pennsylvania and South Dakota.
And it's more than double the proportion of Hispanics in Colorado and South Dakota.
About 56% of Asians in those states have received at least one dose, according to KFF, but in Pennsylvania and South Dakota, whites are five times more likely to be vaccinated than Asians.
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