Journal
JOURNAL OF RACIAL AND ETHNIC HEALTH DISPARITIES
Volume 8, Issue 3, Pages 543-546Publisher
SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING AG
DOI: 10.1007/s40615-021-01025-4
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Vaccine; Vaccine Hesitancy; COVID-19; Virus; Blacks; Infections
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- National Institutes of Health (NIH): NIH BUILD [RL5GM118969]
- National Institutes of Health (NIH): NIH PIONEER [DP1AR068147]
- Raymond and Beverly Sackler Foundation
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The COVID-19 pandemic has had a devastating impact on the world, with racism leading to disproportionate effects on the Black community. Vaccine hesitancy among Black individuals may perpetuate the health disparities currently seen in infections and deaths within the community.
The Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has had a terrible and long-lasting impact on the world. As the infection spreads, the projected mortality and economic devastation are unprecedented. Racism and its subsequent effects on social and economic factors have resulted in the virus disproportionally effecting Black people. Given that the virus has hit the Black community the hardest, I am concerned now that vaccine hesitancy may perpetuate the health disparities that we are currently seeing in the numbers of infections and deaths taking place in the Black community.
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