UK survey: Ethnic minorities less likely to take COVID jab
by Sylvia Hui, The Associated Press
Posted Dec 16, 2020 10:13 am EDT
Last Updated Dec 16, 2020 at 10:14 am EDT
LONDON — People from ethnic minority backgrounds or with lower incomes are less likely to take the coronavirus vaccine being rolled out in Britain, research suggested Wednesday, raising concerns about whether the jab would reach the communities that have been hit disproportionately hard by the pandemic.
A survey by Britain’s Royal Society for Public Health said that while three-quarters of those polled would take a COVID-19 vaccine if advised to do so by a doctor, that figure fell to 57% among Black people and those from Asian and ethnic minority backgrounds.