Racism persists in US jab drive

WASHINGTON, D.C.: Months into the United States' inoculation campaign, Black Americans' Covid-19 vaccination rates are still lagging behind while Hispanics are closing the gap and Native Americans show the highest rates overall, the latest federal data has shown.

Only 22 percent of Black Americans have gotten a shot and Black rates still trail those of Whites in almost every state, according to the data obtained and analyzed by Kaiser Health News from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which gave a sweeping national look at the race and ethnicity of vaccinated people on a state-by-state basis.