The American South: A weak link in the Covid vaccination campaign
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05/07/2021 - 03:16 Volunteers walk door-to-door on June 30, 2021 to inform residents about a Covid-19 vaccination event in Birmingham, Alabama; the US South has some of the country's lowest vaccination rates Elijah Nouvelage AFP/File 5 min
Birmingham (United States) (AFP)
With a sizable Black minority traditionally mistrustful of vaccines and with many conservative rural whites convinced that the vaccine is more dangerous than Covid-19 itself, Southern US states like Alabama have some of the country's lowest vaccination rates, leaving the disadvantaged region vulnerable to dangerous new virus variants.
But some people are trying their best to change that.