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Racism, disease, and vaccine refusal: People of color are dying for access to COVID-19 vaccines

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.

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Autor principal: Reverby, Susan M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7971849/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33684102
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3001167
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spelling pubmed-79718492021-03-31 Racism, disease, and vaccine refusal: People of color are dying for access to COVID-19 vaccines Reverby, Susan M. PLoS Biol Perspective 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. Public Library of Science 2021-03-08 /pmc/articles/PMC7971849/ /pubmed/33684102 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3001167 Text en © 2021 Susan M. Reverby http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Racism, disease, and vaccine refusal: People of color are dying for access to COVID-19 vaccines
title Racism, disease, and vaccine refusal: People of color are dying for access to COVID-19 vaccines
title_full Racism, disease, and vaccine refusal: People of color are dying for access to COVID-19 vaccines
title_fullStr Racism, disease, and vaccine refusal: People of color are dying for access to COVID-19 vaccines
title_full_unstemmed Racism, disease, and vaccine refusal: People of color are dying for access to COVID-19 vaccines
title_short Racism, disease, and vaccine refusal: People of color are dying for access to COVID-19 vaccines
title_sort racism, disease, and vaccine refusal: people of color are dying for access to covid-19 vaccines
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7971849/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33684102
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3001167
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