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Victoria Ramseur didnât want the COVID-19 vaccine.
She works at Catawba County Public Health helping families impacted by COVID-19. She knows the risk of the virus. She wanted to protect herself and others from the coronavirus but the speed at which the vaccine was created and approved made her nervous.
âAs an African American woman I was very, very hesitant about receiving this vaccine,â Ramseur said âI felt like everybody should go before me. I didnât want the vaccine. It was too fast. It came out too fast.â
She is not alone. The Kaiser Family Foundationâs vaccine monitor dashboard, which tracks the publicâs attitude about the COVID-19 vaccine, shows 31 percent of Americans want to âwait and seeâ before getting the vaccine. According to the data, 43 percent of Black Americans want to âwait and see,â the highest rate of any demographic group in the study.