I think the issue of vaccine hesitancy is much more nuanced than this. For example, according to the CDC, the population least vaccinated in the US are black. https://www.kff.org/coronavirus-covid-19/issue-brief/latest-...
"independent hesitancy risk factors included younger age, non-Asian race, having a PhD or ≤high school education, living in a rural county, living in a county with higher 2020 Trump support, lack of worry about COVID-19, working outside the home, never intentionally avoiding contact with others, and no past-year flu vaccine. " https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.07.20.21260795v...
This is interesting.
No lol, you're flagged and omitted. Do you think everybody is as dumb as you?
People wonder why statistics can be so messed up. Some of it is lying with math. But statisticians can't also help when people are being malicious.
Having a PhD is pretty conflated with both race and political affiliations. Who knows what the effect would be after attempting to control for those things.
I was very surprised to learn that they were unwilling to get vaccinated. They are actually very worried about infection, and have been very careful with wearing masks, disinfecting things, and avoiding in-person contacts whenever possible. They explained that they were mostly worried about the unknown long-term side-effects of the vaccines. Maybe having a PhD degree is correlated with having this kind of caution.
Yep that's my understanding. Or if enough time has passed since vaccination to convince them that the vaccines are safe.
There is a grim history of poor medical ethics surrounding the treatment of African Americans that has resulted in feelings of distrust from some.
https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/history/40-years-human-exp...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/made-by-history/wp/2018/...
Additionally, medical debt is such a massive burden to many lower income households that there’s this additional layer of distrust, a feeling that you should steer clear of any medical establishment otherwise they’ll try to pin something on you and charge you mountains of money (even though the vaccine is free).
One of the most notable examples is that of the Tuskegee study on untreated syphilis, where we denied effective treatment w/o informed consent.
PoC have higher infant mortality rates, and the myth that PoC have more tolerance to pain (and therefore require less anesthesia) is still quite prevalent.
It was bad enough that we had to actually produce a report on what is considered the "bare minimum", but even that has not been totally effective. (https://www.hhs.gov/ohrp/regulations-and-policy/belmont-repo...)