Black Americans Lead Whites in Getting Vaccinated By 10 Pts
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Via: john-russell • 4 years ago • 25 commentsBy: Tommy Christopher (Mediaite)
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Black Americans have surpassed White Americans in rate of vaccination by double digits, according to a new NBC News poll.
Black and Latino Americans lagged behind in vaccination rates for months as polls showed hesitancy among various communities, but vaccination rates among Black people have dramatically increased during the Delta surge.
That increase is reflected in the NBC News/Hart Research Associates/Public Opinion Strategies poll released Tuesday. Respondents were asked "Have you already gotten the vaccine?"
Among all adults, 69 percent say they have gotten the vaccine, with 13 percent saying they will not take the vaccine, and the rest either unsure or expressing some willingness to eventually get vaccinated.
Black Americans were the racial group most likely to say they've been vaccinated at 76 percent, with Latinos also above the average at 71 percent, and White people at 66 percent.
The lowest self-reported rate of vaccinations was among respondents who voted for former President Donald Trump in 2020. Only 50 percent of thoe Trump voters say they have been vaccinated.
Texas Lt. Governor Dan Patrick drew harsh criticism last week when he tried to blame the spread of Covid in his state on Black Americans. Patrick told Fox News' Laura Ingraham that "the biggest group in most states are African-Americans who have not been vaccinated. The last time I checked, over 90 percent of them vote for Democrats in their major cities and major counties."
The NBC News poll also found that "urban residents" were much more likely (at 79 percent) to be vaccinated than "rural residents" at 52 percent — a 27-point spread.
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I dont think polls are quite the way to determine who has been vaccinated, but having said that, this information strongly suggests that the vaccine deniers are mainly white rural Trump supporters. What a shock ! Not !
How long will this country pretend this cohort has not been a menace to our society?
You're right about the poll determining but being as how you needed to emphasize the Trump supporters, I wonder how many of them responded with "hone of your damned business" or just said no due to wanting to bullshit. It would seem to me that somewhere the CDC or Johns Hopkins or someone doing the counting doesn't have data, real data. I don't remember if on my application for the vaccine if it asked race...............or the Walgreen's just recorded it after seeing me in person. Who knows?
The poll was gathered from individuals themselves, not from vaccine providers.
I know that. Did you not catch this at the beginning of my reply?
"You're right about the poll determining..........."
No official numbers from the authorities, just a poll.
Gotta be accurate, right?
How accurate is the CDC?
A month ago they admitted they had no racial data on 42% of the people vaccinated only once.
4 states don't participate.
The margin of error is as wide as a valley and yet people including the widely quoted KFF.com reports keep singling out blacks.
Lie, lies and damned statistics.
At the end of the day 57 million white Americans are still the problem,
not 15 million blacks, not the other 27 million minorities.
Good info SP.
The margin of error for the poll is above 3 pct so the vaccination rates actually overlap based on demographics.
You think?
Hmmmm....asked someone yesterday for proof that Black Americans are the least likely to be vaccinated. I got trash talk.
I have seen this played out in my own everyday experience.
There is also anecdotal evidence of this in the fact Trump was booed at his own rally when he said vaccines are good.
Yeah...that was pretty funny. They boo their Lord and Savior when he tells them to get vaxxed. I bet they would boo Jesus Christ Himself if He were to come down from the heavens and call them all sinners
I bet they would boo Jesus Christ Himself if He were to come down from the heavens and call them all sinners
They’d kill him if he pulled some of that socialism bullshit. Jesus needs to be a faithful follower, not a leader.
You do realize they would lump him in with those damn socialists...there was a song & I cannot remember the name or who it was by that was about what Jesus would think if he came back today & what he would look like. It is driving me nuts.
FINALLY!!! It is actually god, not Jesus
I like that song
Me too. "Just a slob, like one of us"....
It was driving me crazy when I couldn't remember it.
Yet, they would still vote for him again....morons.
Perhaps this link will serve better than the above poll...
I have followed this for quite a while and the Black, Non-Hispanic has improved dramatically over the past few weeks.
That sounds like an insurmountable problem in evaluating the stats.
Yet you have a poll based on ...
Thank you JR. I pointed that out in an earlier KFF report
and the typical response "but the blacks"
The data amounts to less value than a poll.
Real data we can use.
Good news.
But, like all polls, the numbers can be manipulated to attain any predetermined outcome desired.
Were the numbers of people polled equal? Same number of blacks, whites, Latinos, Asians, etc.?
Were the numbers of people dispersed equally geographically? Urban, suburban, rural?
And were the answers actually true or were people just playing with an annoying phone call interrupting their meal or favorite TV show? For my part, I love playing with fools that call me. I know a computer makes the initial call and transfers the people to a live agent, but I'm on the Do Not Call list and know that the programmers simply program a block of numbers 0001 to 9999 in certain area and office codes. They're too lazy to remove those of us that don't want to be bothered by them.