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Early Data Shows Striking Racial Disparities In Who’s Getting The COVID-19 Vaccine – Valley Public Radio

Slightly more than 6% of American adults have received at least the first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine — but a disproportionately small number of them are

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Slightly more than 6% of American adults have received at least the first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine but a disproportionately small number of them are Black and Hispanic people.
“What we’re seeing from the states that are currently reporting data on vaccination distribution by race and ethnicity is a consistent pattern that is really showing a mismatch between who’s receiving the vaccine and who has been hardest hit by the pandemic,”says Samantha Artiga, the director of the Racial Equity and…

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