New data shows many Black Americans remain hesitant to get Covid-19 vaccine
More than half of Black adults in the US remain hesitant to get the Covid-19 vaccine and experts say new data underscores the need to prioritize equitable access and redouble efforts to build trust within communities.
Respondents said they either don’t plan to get the shot or they are uncertain if they should or will get the shot, according to a new survey released Thursday by the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases.
The survey found that only 49% of Black adults plan to get the vaccine with 19% of those people saying say they will get it right away and 31% preferring to wait.
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BETHESDA, Md., Feb. 4, 2021 /PRNewswire/ New data released today by the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases (NFID) shows a significant gap in vaccine confidence among Black adults in the US. Despite bearing a disproportionate burden of serious disease and death related to COVID-19 and influenza (flu), a large percentage of Black adults say they will not get a COVID-19 vaccine when eligible, and they are either unsure or will not get a flu vaccine this season.
Patricia N. Whitley-Williams, MD, President of the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases (NFID) receives her flu vaccine during the 2020-2021 flu season. NFID is working to build flu and COVID-19 vaccine confidence among US Black adults.
New data shows many Black Americans remain hesitant to get Covid-19 vaccine
More than half of Black adults in the US remain hesitant to get the Covid-19 vaccine and experts say new data underscores the need to prioritize equitable access and redouble efforts to build trust within communities.
Respondents said they either don’t plan to get the shot or they are uncertain if they should or will get the shot, according to a new survey released Thursday by the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases.
The survey found that only 49% of Black adults plan to get the vaccine with 19% of those people saying say they will get it right away and 31% preferring to wait.
FALL RIVER A group of Fall River health care providers who participated in a COVID-19 vaccine study are looking to spread the word that the available vaccines for the highly contagious virus are safe and effective.
“We’re believers in vaccines. We’ve seen what vaccines have done in the last 30 or 40 years,” said Dr. Walter Rok, a practitioner at Pediatric Associates of Fall River.
He pointed to the precipitous decline in infections from meningitis and similar diseases that have seen increasingly effective vaccines in recent years.
“Vaccines save lives,” he said. “They work.”
Trial participants
Rok and seven of his coworkers recently volunteered to participate in a study run through Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston testing the effectiveness of Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine.
How to Time Your Workouts Around Your COVID-19 Vaccination Jon Gugala
So you’ve heard that there might be some vaccination side effects, and you have some tough workouts and a COVID-19 vaccination shot coming up this week. Will getting the vaccine make it harder to work out? The health tracker maker Whoop just took an interesting look at their members’ data and it might help you know what to expect.
On January 26, Whoop released a blog post to its members regarding COVID-19 vaccines’ impact on their biometric data. After sampling 1,200 members who self-reported receiving a vaccine over a four-day period in January, the company had crunched the numbers and found double-digit change in elevated resting heart rate and depressed heart rate variability for a significant number of its users. The sample size was small and the survey far from a controlled scientific study, but its conclusion suggests that even among the most conditioned athletes, the COVID-19 vacci