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Not sure how great of a source this is - but black people at all education levels seem to be about ~8% less likely than the general population to get vaccinated [1].

However, black people at most education levels are poorer than the average population (unfortunately) - and according to this chart - poor people are also much more likely to not be vaccinated [2].

You can't really make any conclusions from the two charts - but I would guess a lot of this is because black people are disproportionately poorer than average.

[1] https://www.shadac.org/news/HPSVax-06.21#:~:text=47.0%25)%20....

[2] https://www.axios.com/covid-vaccines-low-income-poor-workers...

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Re: poorer - my partner needed the car on the day I had scheduled a jab, so I had to walk/train. The appointment, as a whole, cost an entire morning. I can work around that, but the practical issues are obvious.

A friend's anecdotal evidence was that skepticism was U-shaped as a function of age - there were older black people much more likely to have close experience of mistreatment. For reference I'm not in the US and some still bring up tuskegee, but also more typical things that do apply locally - "oh some skinheads beat you up? What a shame. Might be nasty if you made an issue of it" type stuff. Younger generations have had less mistreatment - not none, but less - and, like everyone else, are divided between pragmatic decision makers and conspiracy theorists.

Of course, if you're from certain regions of Pakistan, there is much more recent evidence of vaccines specifically being misused, and was also discussed recently on HN (as a point of pedantry, the people in question did get real vaccines. Still pretty awful). I don't believe this has had as much impact as certain sections of the media with a fetish for diaspora narratives and a poor grasp of geography would like.

In case you're interested, here's a recent preprint that breaks down the demographics of vaccine hesitancy: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.07.20.21260795v...

https://xkcd.com/985/

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