What pediatricians seek in Pfizer data on vaccinating kids - PBS NewsHour

Dr. Rhea Boyd:

This is such a critical question.

We know that what the main barriers are to communities of color, particularly Black communities, receiving a COVID vaccine is absolutely access. For example, Kaiser Family Foundation did a poll of parents across the country. And what they found is that parents who go to high-income schools — so, parents who go to schools that have a wealthy student population — were more likely to have the vaccine recommended by their teacher.

They were more likely to receive information about the COVID vaccines through their school, which made those students and families more likely to get vaccinated. So, all of our kids who are in low-income schools, which we know our nation's history of residential segregation, means communities of color and Black kids in particular are more likely to go to low-income schools, don't have equal access to information about the COVID vaccines.

And so what we have been doing is making sure we go directly to our communities of color, particularly Black and Spanish-speaking communities, to share the credible information, to share the science, to say, these vaccines are safe, they are incredibly effective, and they're the best way our communities can protect ourselves from the devastation that COVID has raped.

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