{"id":3839,"date":"2021-02-10T18:35:01","date_gmt":"2021-02-11T02:35:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=3839"},"modified":"2021-02-12T12:59:45","modified_gmt":"2021-02-12T20:59:45","slug":"understanding-drivers-of-covid-19-vaccine-hesitancy-among-blacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/02\/10\/understanding-drivers-of-covid-19-vaccine-hesitancy-among-blacks\/","title":{"rendered":"Understanding Drivers of COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy Among Black Community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Findings from focus groups conducted in July and August, 2020 among Black barbershop and salon owners (n=24) living in areas of higher COVID-19 prevalence showed that COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy was high due to mistrust in the medical establishment, concerns regarding the speed of vaccine development, a perception of lack of data on side effects, fear of the vaccine causing infection, and a political environment of racial injustice. A recommendation to take the vaccine from a trusted health care provider was identified as a facilitator of willingness to be vaccinated.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i>Momplaisir et al. (Feb 9, 2021). Understanding Drivers of COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy Among Blacks. Clinical Infectious Diseases. <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/cid\/ciab102\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/cid\/ciab102<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Findings from focus groups conducted in July and August, 2020 among Black barbershop and salon owners (n=24) living in areas of higher COVID-19 prevalence showed that COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy was high due to mistrust in the medical establishment, concerns regarding the speed of vaccine development, a perception of lack of data on side effects, fear&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/02\/10\/understanding-drivers-of-covid-19-vaccine-hesitancy-among-blacks\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[42,147],"topic":[31],"class_list":["post-3839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-disparities","tag-vaccination","topic-vaccines-and-immunity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3839"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3888,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3839\/revisions\/3888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3839"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=3839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}