Addressing Justified Vaccine Hesitancy in the Black Community

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 dispropo...

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Autor principal: Laurencin, Cato T.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer International Publishing 2021
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Perspective Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8009077/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33783755
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40615-021-01025-4
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description 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.
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spelling pubmed-80090772021-03-31 Addressing Justified Vaccine Hesitancy in the Black Community Laurencin, Cato T. J Racial Ethn Health Disparities Perspective Article 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. Springer International Publishing 2021-03-30 2021 /pmc/articles/PMC8009077/ /pubmed/33783755 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40615-021-01025-4 Text en © W. Montague Cobb-NMA Health Institute 2021 This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic.
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