Accusations of Racism. Only 28% of young black people in New York are vaccinated as of October, for example.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/12/nyregion/covid-vaccine-bl...
Edit: Added "young" adjective that was missing, point remains.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/12/nyregion/covid-vaccine-bl...
Edit: Added "young" adjective that was missing, point remains.
I am very much against the forced vaccinations of people, and I very much abhor what is happening in Canada (where I live) with the vaccine passports and the making of the unvaccinated second class citizens. But don't make the term racism a worthless term by using it for everything. It's counterproductive.
I say all this as a black Trinidadian immigrant that lives in Canada. I am vaccinated myself, but many black people I know are not.
I am saying though, that if you unilaterally denied COVID care to non-vaccinated patients, that would be the equivalent of denying service to ~70% of "young black people," which would be easy bait for people calling that racist. Which is why the health system probably won't do it.
This is not what the article you’ve cited says.
(I am vaccinated please don't post hot takes about how I am a anti-vaxer.)
If it was a policy that's based on something that the Black people can't change about them (e.g. refusal to entry to a club based on your address, with majority black areas of town being in that list), and it disadvantages them, yes that'd be racist. But in this case, the Black people (or whoever) can easily change it by getting vaxed...
Regarding the latter, it's not difficult to create a policy that's non-racist in construction, but has reliably racist results. Correlated parameters, etc. Whether anything can or should be done about it is a thornier question.