Leana Wen, an emergency physician and visiting public health professor at George Washington University, and Sam Wang, a professor of neuroscience at Princeton University, compared being unvaccinated in public to drunken driving.
Similarly, with covid, the risk is borne not only by the person making the decision but also by others who cross their path. Driving sober reduces the risk of the accident in the first place. No vaccine is percent effective, and the more virus is around us — in this case, carried by the unvaccinated, who are five times more likely to be infected and thus to spread coronavirus — the more likely the vaccinated are to become infected.
Not everyone will agree with that comparison, but it is nevertheless an illustration of the risk that exists. The foundation has no control over FactCheck. The goal of the project is to increase exposure to accurate information about COVID and vaccines, while decreasing the impact of misinformation.
White House. Fox News. Interview with FactCheck. David Dowdy, Johns Hopkins University associate professor of epidemiology. Email sent to FactCheck. McDonald, Jessica. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Accessed 16 Sep Wen, Leana and Sam Wang. The Covid States team shared with me more than a thousand comments from unvaccinated people who were surveyed. Scrolling through them, I noticed a lot more fear than certainty. Was it developed too fast?
Do we know enough? There was also a lot of fear of side effects, worries about lack of Food and Drug Administration approval and about yet-undiscovered dangers. They are pictures of confusion, not conviction. One woman who documented her final days on TikTok described being uncertain about side effects, being worried about lack of F. Or consider Josie and Tom Burko, married parents who died from Covid within days of each other, leaving behind an 8-year-old daughter. Tom reportedly had muscular atrophy, and similar worries.
Afraid, they had not yet gotten vaccinated. As of , one quarter of the population in the United States had no primary health care provider to turn to for trusted advice. Along with the recognition of greater risk, access to regular health care may be an important explanation of why those over 65 are the most-vaccinated demographic in the country.
They have Medicare. That might have increased their immunity against the Fox News scare stories. Any worry about long-term side effects is worsened by a system in which even a minor illness can produce unpredictable and potentially huge expenses. Black people are less likely to be given pain medication or even treatment for life-threatening emergencies , for instance.
In New York, for example, only 42 percent of African Americans of all ages and 49 percent among adults are fully vaccinated — the lowest rate among all demographic groups tracked by the city. This is another area in which the dominant image of the white, QAnon-spouting, Tucker Carlson-watching conspiracist anti-vaxxer dying to own the libs is so damaging. It can lead us to ignore the problem of racialized health inequities with deep historic roots but also ongoing repercussions, and prevent us from understanding that there are different kinds of vaccine hesitancy, which require different approaches.
About a month ago, the rap artist made headlines after tweeting that she was worried about vaccines because she had heard from her cousin that a friend of his had swollen testicles after being vaccinated. Experts pointed out that, even if this had happened, it was most likely caused by a sexually transmitted disease. She was justifiably denounced for spreading misinformation. But something else that Minaj said caught my eye.
Not that loose one. In contrast, those who were neither vaccinated nor masked were more likely to be Republicans, and more likely to be rural, less educated and white. Among the vaccinated, Asian Americans were most likely to be still wearing masks. Lazer also highlighted an overlooked group with higher levels of vaccine hesitancy: young mothers. They were hesitant, both for themselves and their children, an alarming development especially if it starts affecting other childhood vaccinations.
Similarly, from real-life data, we know that only a little more than one-third of pregnant women are vaccinated, which has led to many tragic stories of babies losing their mothers just as they are being whisked into the neonatal intensive care unit after an emergency cesarean section.
It may well be that some of the unvaccinated are a bit like cats stuck in a tree. North Dakota and New Mexico are excluded from the total due to differences their reporting of data. It also shows the ratio of vaccination rates for White people compared to those of Black, Hispanic, and Asian people, as well as the percentage point difference between vaccination rates for White people and the rates for the other groups.
These data will differ from survey estimates of vaccination rates that are limited to adults. White people also had a higher rate than Black people in most reporting states, except Oregon, Alaska, Idaho, Mississippi, Washington, Louisiana, and Alabama. The size of these differences varied widely across states, and they have been narrowing over time. These data will differ from other estimates of vaccination rates among adults or the eligible population ages 12 and older.
North Dakota and New Mexico are excluded from the total due to differences in how they report their data. White people also had a higher rate than Black people in every reporting state, except Oregon, Alaska, Idaho, Mississippi, Washington, and Louisiana.
Between September 20 and October 4, Black and Hispanic people experienced a slightly larger increase in vaccination rates compared to White and Asian people, narrowing the disparities in vaccination rates Figure 3.
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