Open AccessRacism, disease, and vaccine refusal: People of color are dying for access to COVID-19 vaccines
Author(s) -
Susan M. Reverby
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
plos biology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 4.127
H-Index - 271
eISSN - 1545-7885
pISSN - 1544-9173
DOI - 10.1371/journal.pbio.3001167
Subject(s) - covid-19 , vaccination , disease , biology , virology , people of color , focus (optics) , immunology , internet privacy , infectious disease (medical specialty) , medicine , race (biology) , outbreak , computer science , pathology , botany , physics , optics
As the vaccines against COVID are slowly becoming available, we need to consider the paradox of why so many people of color are dying from the disease yet cannot get the vaccinations. Concerns focus on vaccine refusal but lack of access is the bigger problem.