About 10 per cent of monkeypox vaccine doses have been given to Black people, even though they account for one-third of U.S. cases, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The new numbers come from 17 states and two cities, and represent the most comprehensive details yet on who has been getting the two-dose vaccines. Similar disparities had been reported previously by a few states and cities.
The gap is an echo of disparities seen during the COVID-19 pandemic, when certain racial groups were a disproportionately large share of cases but a smaller fraction of the people initially receiving vaccinations, said Dr. Yvens Laborde, director of global health education at Ochsner Health in New Orleans.Available information suggests that Black men are a growing proportion of monkeypox cases, said Caitlin Rivers, a Johns Hopkins University expert on government response to epidemics.
Some experts say health officials need to make sure Black men have more access to vaccinations, testing, treatment and other types of information and assistance. Monkeypox is endemic in parts of Africa, where people have been infected through bites from rodents or small animals. It wasn't considered a disease that spreads easily among people until May, when infections emerged in Europe and the U.S.
Extremely hard to get people excited about this vaccine considering all the bullshit we were fed regarding the covid vaccine🤪👍
What a load of hogwash😂😂
Blah blah blah. Everything is about racism to you people.
They can have my shot
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identity markxs..
Sure 🤡👍⚠️ Flakes.
Bahahahahaha! 🤣
Monkeypox vaccines are racist
Lol. Intelligence gaps, not racial
Why not just tweet '[insert subject]. Is racism to blame?' for every headline?
So what this article is suggesting that MonkeypoxVirus is a GayManVirus like WTF1 is now having Hitler's ideologies targeting the gay community
Isn't it entirely volunteer?
Cut the bullshit. We as black people could not care less about you poison vaccine. Stop saying racial this and racial that. The medical apartheid ends right now. We don't want your harmful racially targeted bioweaponized vaccines.
of course! Covid was about race Covid was about gender Covid was about LGBTQ+ Covid was about indigenous peoples Covid was about the poor Covid was about Global Warming Covid was about PETA there was no science in Covid just balancing social policies just like Monkeypox