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Dr Rhea Boyd:
This is such a critical question.
We know that the main barriers for communities of color, especially black communities, to receiving a COVID vaccine are absolutely access. For example, the Kaiser Family Foundation conducted a survey of parents across the country. And what they found was that parents who attend high-income schools – thus, parents who attend schools that have wealthy student populations – were more likely to have the vaccine recommended by their teacher.
They were more likely to receive information about COVID vaccines through their school, which made these students and their families more likely to be vaccinated. So all of our children who are in low income schools, whose history of residential segregation we know of our country, means that communities of color and black children in particular are more likely to attend schools in low income, do not have equal access to information about COVID vaccines.
And so what we’ve done is make sure we’re going straight to our communities of color, especially black and Spanish speaking communities, to share credible information, to share science, to say these vaccines are safe, they’re incredibly effective, and they’re the best way for our communities to protect themselves from the devastation COVID has violated.
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