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.
This Jan. 25, 2021, photo provided by Thomas A. LaVeist, shows him getting his first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine at Tulane University School of Public Health & Tropical Medicine in New Orleans. A racial gap has opened up in the nation's COVID-19 vaccination drive, with Black Americans in many places lagging behind whites in receiving shots, an Associated Press analysis shows. LaVeist, dean of the school, is recruiting notable Black Americans to help promote vaccination. Courtesy of Thomas A. LaVeist via AP
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