UNPROTECTED: Series Part 2: Vaccination Barriers
NEWSLETTER: Black Iowans: COVID-19, vaccines and bias in health care.
Editor’s Note: This series was made possible by a grant from the Black Press Grant Program of the National Association of Black Journalists.
Donna Henderson last spring had to surmount two hurdles to get vaccinated — registering online and driving 86 miles to the appointment.
“It was a deterrent,” said Henderson, owner of Henderson’s Highland Park Funeral Home, one of two Black-owned funeral homes in the state. “It was so hard to get — so hard to schedule.”
Complex reasons factor into low vaccination rates for Black Iowans, including concerns about the nation’s legacy of unethical medical treatment of Blacks, lack of access to transportation, internet or vaccination sites in their neighborhoods, limited outreach, misinformation and disinformation and a host of other barriers, Blacks, health experts and others agreed.
“The rollout for the vaccine was problematic at best — impossible at the beginning — with no encouragement for marginalized communities,” Henderson said. Read the FULL Story.
Coming next week: Part 3: What Black Iowans can do to fight health care bias
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