Clarence Page: The polls are in: Vaccine hesitancy higher among white Republicans than any other group
by Clarence Page, Tribune Content Agency
Apr 21, 2021
3 minutes
As a form of identity politics, the coronavirus pandemic works in unusual yet painfully familiar ways.
For example, the widely reported divide between Blacks and whites in willingness to be vaccinated appears to pale next to differences between political partisans.
While differences in access to vaccines continue to be a major challenge, the gap appears to be closing between Black and white Americans in their eagerness to get the shot, according to a recent NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist survey.
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