#Unvaccinated

[Demovictory9]

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1. Let's get one thing straight. We need to stop making African Americans...

the poster children for non-vaxxers.

A recent poll found that Black people are vaccinated at a higher rate than whites. There is some African American vaccine hesitancy, but they are minority among African Americans, Latino Americans too.

NBC News poll contradicts CDC data on black and Hispanic vaccine hesitancy

Everything you have heard about vaccine hesitancy among blacks and Hispanics is wrong, according to a poll released this week by NBC News . Neither group actually distrusts the coronavirus vaccines . On the contrary, an overwhelming number of blacks and Hispanics say they’re already vaccinated, according to the NBC survey.

This is great news, but it’s also at odds with federal data showing blacks and Hispanics are among the most hesitant to get the shot. NBC staffers have been eager this week to share the poll’s unexpected findings. “Based on NBC poll, black voters were MOST likely to be vaccinated,” NBC White House correspondent Mike Memoli said this week, adding further, “And then this breakdown: 91% of Biden voters are already vaccinated vs. 50% of Trump voters. 27% of Trump voters say they won't get vaccinated, vs 2% of Biden voters.”

The survey, which was conducted by Hart Research between Aug. 14-17, sampled 1,000 adults 18 and older. Of the 1,000 respondents polled for NBC’s survey, 790 of them are registered voters.

[Demovictory9]

2. true. this was just one story out of the many unvaxxed deaths reported recently that got lots of

coverage

[Buckeye_Democrat]

3. According to the CDC, which I trust more than polls...

... since they're getting actual demographic information about the vaccinations, African Americans and Hispanics have indeed been getting vaccinated at a lower percentage than their percentage share of the general population.

But not far less, so far, AND those groups are currently getting vaccinated at significantly higher proportions than whites.

https://www.kff.org/coronavirus-covid-19/issue-brief/latest-data-on-covid-19-vaccinations-race-ethnicity/

The Trump followers, overwhelmingly white, will ultimately be the main non-vaxxers. I mean, both in overall numbers and as a percentage by race. That was obvious to me from the beginning.

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4. Recent polls suggest the CDC needs to update their research.

The highest demographic segment of non-vaxxers is white, republican men.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

5. It was published yesterday, and it's showing that...

... both African Americans and Hispanics are currently getting vaccinated at FAR higher percentages than whites.

Those ethnicities will surpass whites, as a percentage of them vaccinated. Maybe pretty soon, at the current rates. And it's what I could've predicted many months ago.

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6. That's what I said.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

7. They're not yet vaccinated at a higher percentage.

They will be soon, surely, at the current rates.

As far as "hesitancy" goes, polls have been showing for awhile that minorities had a lower percentage of outright vax-refusers. It was the white Trump'ers who mostly expressed that. It's just that other white people were quicker to get vaccinated than African Americans and Hispanics, initially.

Native Americans were the fastest of all ethnicities at getting vaccinated.