...'forced to use the protection that didn't protect the protected' is patently false.
Greatly, dramatically, reduced likelihood for the protected against becoming seriously ill, hospitalized or dying IS protection.
There is vax hesitancy among blacks for historical reasons. Compare and contrast with the Trump base that remains less vaxxed than vaxxed due to pure political bullshit, irresponsible GOP governors and junk science promoting Fox News talking heads.
Studies have shown that the COVID-19 pandemic disproportionately affects Black people and other minorities in the United States in severity, mortality, economics, and more.
Thomas says, however, that it was just last summer when the New York Times had to sue the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to get a breakdown of infections by race. And a year ago some people even thought Black people were immune to the virus because of the melanin in their skin.
As Joe Smyser, PhD, MSPH, CEO of the health communications firm Public Good Projects, puts it, "Everybody knows about Tuskegee. Everybody knows about Henrietta Lacks. What I don't often hear acknowledged is that the systemic racism that encouraged these two unethical, horrible incidents is still causing unethical, horrible incidents."
Smyser points to a 2020 study that found Black babies are three times more likely to survive if they're cared for by a Black physician than a white one.
In 2010, he reminds, minority women were forced to be sterilized in the US prison system. And just 2 months ago, he says, Susan Moore, MD, a Black physician, spoke about receiving racist treatment when she was hospitalized for COVID before succumbing to the infection.
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