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Blacks, Hispanics shortchanged on vaccine

Corky Siemaszko
March 1, 2021, 3:24 PM
Not long after Florida began its rollout of the coronavirus vaccines, Black leaders and others began raising alarms that the first doses were finding their way into the arms of mostly white senior citizens who supported Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis, while their hard-hit communities were left in the cold.
Now some numbers appear to support those suspicions.
Of the 34 states that shared vaccination data by race and ethnicity, Florida ranks near the bottom in the rate at which Black residents have been inoculated even as the community has suffered a disproportionate share of Covid-19 deaths, concluded Aubrey Jewett, a political science professor at the University of Central Florida. ....

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Blacks/Hispanics die more of Covid, get vaccinated less

Blacks/Hispanics die more of Covid, get vaccinated less
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