3:48 New polls are shining a light on two of the most pressing social issues of our time: COVID and race relations. " A majority of between 50 and 61 percent of Democrats, Republicans, independents, upstaters, downstaters, Black, Latino and white voters, all say the worst than the pandemic is still in front of us. “
More Than A Quarter Of New Yorkers Say They Won't Get COVID-19 Vaccine Seven percent told Siena they had received at least one shot of the vaccine. Albany's Center for Law and Justice Executive Director Alice Green says the Black community has been hard hit by the pandemic. "We're still dealing with that issue of trust, and I hear it every day. You know I think the people are going to welcome a vaccine, when they tell me 'no,' because there's that long history of racism there in providing medical attention to care, so we're trying to overcome that, you know trying to find ways of getting people to understand how important it is."