May 20, 2021

RO working Stark racial disparities persist in vaccinations, state-level CDC data show

Black Americans’ COVID-19 vaccination rates are still lagging months into the nation’s campaign, while Latinos are closing the gap and Native Americans show the highest rates overall, according to federal data obtained by KHN.
The data, provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in response to a public records request, gives a sweeping national look at the race and ethnicity of vaccinated people on a state-by-state basis. Yet nearly half of those vaccination records are missing r