Jean Guerrero: Vaccine hesitancy among younger Latinos threatens our elders. Protect abuelita at Christmas
Younger Latinos owe it to our elders to be fully vaccinated and boosted against COVID this winter — or skip the matriarch's "Nochebuena" party on Christmas Eve and other family gatherings. But as omicron races through our society, multiplying 70 times faster than delta, there's a dangerous gap in vaccination rates for Latinos under 50 compared with rates for older Latinos — a gap that's bigger ...
by Jean Guerrero, Los Angeles Times
Dec 24, 2021
3 minutes
Younger Latinos owe it to our elders to be fully vaccinated and boosted against COVID this winter — or skip the matriarch's "Nochebuena" party on Christmas Eve and other family gatherings.
But as omicron races through our society, multiplying 70 times faster than delta, there's a dangerous gap in vaccination rates for Latinos under 50 compared with rates for older Latinos — a gap that's bigger than in any other ethnic group in Los Angeles County. The age disparity, which applies especially to Latinx millennials and their children, could deepen the pandemic's already-disproportionate toll
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