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Why Only 28 Percent of Young Black New Yorkers Are Vaccinated

A construction site safety manager in Queens said that as a Black man, he was more worried about the prospect of being stopped by the police than he was about getting Covid-19.

A graduate student in the Bronx who had not gotten vaccinated said her worst fears seemed confirmed when a vaccine that the government was directing to Black and poorer neighborhoods was briefly suspended over a small number of dangerous blood clots.

And a civil rights activist in the Bronx said he grew suspicious when he heard last year that politicians were prioritizing minority neighborhoods for coronavirus vaccinations.

“Since when does America give anything good to Black people first?” said the activist, Hawk Newsome, a 44-year-old Black Lives Matter leader who is unvaccinated.

All three situations reflect a trend that has become a major concern to public health experts: Young Black New Yorkers are especially reluctant to get vaccinated, even as the Delta variant is rapidly spreading among their ranks. City data shows that only 28 percent of Black New Yorkers ages 18 to 44 years are fully vaccinated, compared with 48 percent of Latino residents and 52 percent of white residents in that age group.

So, they’re concerned about getting the vaccine due to white Democratic racism? Huh.

This vaccination gap is emerging as the latest stark racial disparity in an epidemic full of them. Epidemiologists say they expect this third wave will hit Black New Yorkers especially hard.

And there you have it: because blacks are seriously reticent on getting the vaccine it must be racism. Instead of simply being a choice. Notice that the NY Times fails to blast them for their vaccine hesitancy like they do with Southern Republicans, for instance.

In interviews, Black men and women said that much of their distrust of the coronavirus vaccine was shaped by their own experiences with discrimination or their identity as Black Americans.

“I’m supposed to worry about getting sick when I go outside, versus getting killed by a cop or something like that?” said Jayson Clemons, 41, the construction site safety manager from Queens. After years of trying to be careful not to give the police a reason to stop him — avoiding cars with window tint or rims, and making sure when commuting that his attire clearly marked him as a construction worker — he said he refused to be preoccupied by Covid-19.

He said he would rather put his trust in masks and hand sanitizer — which he credits with keeping him healthy as he worked at construction sites throughout the pandemic — than a new vaccine that the government is pushing people to take. “They came out with one so fast for Covid, and now they want to pay you to take it,” he said. “It seems fishy.”

If a Republican was saying something similar the Times would be blasting them for being conspiracy theorists, right? It’s OK with the Times if blacks are trotting out their own theories, and the Times is really wondering just what did white people do to cause this. That would be white liberals, since NYC is not run by Republicans. But, you know what? If they don’t want to get vaccinated, that’s on them. They can do them and I’ll do me. It’s not my place to force them.

Meanwhile

Wearing Visible Proof Of Covid Vaccination Status Might Be Coming Soon To Film & TV Productions

Some cast and crew members on films and TV shows soon might be required to wear identification that “clearly and visibly” verifies their Covid vaccination status while working on set. “Various things have been discussed, from wristbands to credential badges,” a union source tells Deadline.

“I have not seen what this is to look like yet,” another union source said. “My understanding is this would be either a sticker affixed to your current ID or a separate identification card that would have to be on the same lanyard as your working ID.”

This isn’t so much Yellow Stars but Democrats crowing about taking the vaccine…I wonder what would happen if we reinforced that these, the vaccines, were what Trump pushed for and authorized?

Read: NY Times Explains Why Only 28% Of Blacks Are Vaccinated In NYC »

It’s getting closer, so, what happens?

How the FDA’s full approval could affect COVID-19 vaccinations

The rise of the highly transmissible Delta variant has put mounting pressure on the Food and Drug Administration to fully approve the COVID-19 vaccines under emergency use authorization.

Pfizer’s vaccine is expected to be the first to be granted such approval, possibly within weeks. Although it is unclear what impact this decision will have on the course of the pandemic, many public health experts believe it could make a difference in several ways.

One is that the full approval could persuade some unvaccinated Americans to get the shot.

Me, I recommend getting it, but, I’m not going to sit there and attempt to convince you. Not that I’m calling them pigs, but, remember the old saying “never teach a pig to dance. It wastes your time and annoys the pig”? Yeah, most, it’s a waste of time and you annoy your friends, coworkers, and family. Though, with family, they’re your family, you are Constitutionally allowed to annoy them, and should. Even if Delta (and soon Lamda) breaks through at a high rate, it usually means symptoms like a mild cold at worst.

Even though the COVID-19 vaccines have undergone rigorous safety protocols in order to be granted emergency use authorization by the FDA, and billions of people worldwide have now been vaccinated without any complications, many Americans continue to see the shots as “experimental.”

According to a Kaiser Family Foundation poll, 3 in 10 unvaccinated adults — 31 percent — said they would be more likely to get the shots if a vaccine received full approval. The organization notes, however, that two-thirds of the adults polled were confused about the type of FDA approval category that these vaccines currently have. Some thought they were already fully approved, and others were unsure about whether they were fully approved or authorized for emergency use. The organization says these findings likely suggest that FDA approval is “a proxy for general safety concerns.”

Sure, a lot run with conspiracy theories, but most of the “anti-vaxxers” are really just concerned with them not being fully approved. Of course, remember than many drugs are ones you see on TV, with people smiling and dancing and stuff and disclaimers like “could cause diarrhea and death.”

Other experts, however, believe people who are still hesitant about the vaccines are probably not going to be swayed by FDA approval. Dorit Reiss, a professor of law at the University of California, San Francisco, Hastings College of Law, told Yahoo News that “it will make a larger difference to the legal situation.”

Reiss, whose current research focuses on legal and policy issues related to vaccines, said the approval could give businesses and government agencies more confidence to mandate COVID-19 vaccines. Across the nation these mandates have become more common, but they continue to be surrounded by controversy, in part because the COVID-19 vaccines have yet to be fully approved by the FDA.

“It will remove the argument that the vaccines cannot be mandated because they are under emergency use authorization,” Reiss said.

Most private workplaces already have the legal authority to mandate vaccines for workers. Same with most governments for government employees (strange that Biden hasn’t mandated it for the Executive Branch). But, most hedge a bit by requiring vaccines or weekly/biweekly testing. With full FDA approval you can expect quite a bit more mandates without the option of testing.

But, if government keeps attempting to implement masking and other measures …. for the life of me I can’t understand why they don’t push for social distancing again. Wash hands. Don’t touch. Oh, right, authoritarianism lite from elected officials….it will not help, and people will simply leave their jobs. Many in the medical field, who will go elsewhere.

Read: What Can You Expect When The FDA Gives Full Approval Of Vaccines? »