Racial Gap in uptake of 3rd vaccine in immune compromised

[Bartlet]

bloodcancer.org.uk/news/ala...

“Much of the public debate around lower vaccination rates in some communities has centred around vaccine hesitancy, but it is inconceivable that many thousands of immunocompromised people from ethnic minorities have willingly had the first two vaccine doses and then decided they did not want a third dose. A much more likely explanation is that while the chaotic roll-out of the third doses meant lots of people struggled to get a third dose, the impact of this fell disproportionately on the shoulders of people from ethnic minorities." Gemma Peters

[Justasheet1]

“The data in this press release are until December 14, 2021, and we expect the racial disparity to have narrowed since then as more people have been given third doses. But this would still mean that people from these groups were disproportionately at risk from Covid between October and December, a period when the infection rate was high.”

Things are improving. Why?

“Much of the public debate around lower vaccination rates in some communities has centred around vaccine hesitancy,

but it is inconceivable

that many thousands of immunocompromised people from ethnic minorities have willingly had the first two vaccine doses and then decided they did not want a third dose.

A much more likely explanation is that while the chaotic roll-out of the third doses meant lots of people struggled to get a third dose, the impact of this fell disproportionately on the shoulders of people from ethnic minorities.”

While inconceivable to this individual it is plausible and can’t be discounted. This is purely speculative. This appears to be biased journalism as there was no investigation to either rule this in or out as a possibility the author just dismissed it totally.

By dismissing this possibility they could totally miss addressing the reason that needs focused on.

The article admitted that the numbers are improving so it seems like the problem was corrected but perhaps not.

I hope that everyone can access the care they need going forward for whatever reason.

Jeff

[Annie1920 in reply to Justasheet1]

Where was it reported? I wonder if this is another redtop showing its racial bias? Sadly it wouldn't surprise me one bit

[mrsjsmith in reply to Annie1920]

The article is from Blood Cancer.