US COVID-19 vaccine disparities linked to socioeconomicsUS COVID-19 vaccine disparities (CVD) were linked with income, education, political views, and race, according to a study yesterday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.The researchers looked at vaccination rates in 756 counties, or 51.5% of the US population, on Apr 19, when almost half of adults were at least partially vaccinated.
Weighted average CVD across counties was 16.0 percentage points, with an average of 35.9% of White people and 19.9% of Black people vaccinated per county.
While this was less of a disparity compared with the flu vaccine (18.8 percentage points, 51.6% and 32.8%), stronger associations were seen for most other socioeconomic indicators.CVD