US racial inequities in vaccination raise risk of new Covid hotspots and variants

Just 4.6% of Latinos and 5.7% of Black Americans have received a dose, compared with 11.3% of white Americans

Latino and Black Americans continue to be vaccinated against Covid at the lowest rate despite political promises to redress inequalities, new analysis reveals.

Only 4.6% of Latinos and 5.7% of Black Americans have so far received a vaccine dose, compared with 11.3% of white Americans and 10.5% of Asian Americans, according to analysis by APM Research Lab shared exclusively with the Guardian.