Racial disparities in COVID-19 vaccination rates persist as delta variant gains steam
| Even as the U.S. approaches a coronavirus vaccination rate of 70 percent, racial disparities in who has gotten vaccinated persist, raising questions about how the communities of color that were hit hardest by the first wave of the pandemic will fare against the rapidly spreading delta variant.
That gap is beginning to close, but the road to an equitable distribution of vaccinations has been rocky. |
