Open AccessAddressing Justified Vaccine Hesitancy in the Black Community
Author(s) -
Cato T. Laurencin
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of racial and ethnic health disparities
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.644
H-Index - 21
eISSN - 2197-3792
pISSN - 2196-8837
DOI - 10.1007/s40615-021-01025-4
Subject(s) - pandemic , covid-19 , racism , epidemiology , public health , disease , coronavirus , medicine , economic growth , environmental health , demography , political science , virology , sociology , infectious disease (medical specialty) , outbreak , economics , nursing , law , pathology
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.