Dear black people,
Both of my parents have had the vaccine.
I personally drove my mum through the snow to get it, because I love her.
So I am begging you.
Speak to your parents, uncles, aunties and grandparents. They will get a call. Please do all you can to protect them too.
Current Tory rhetoric suggests they will soon try to blame Covid rates on ethnic minorities, implying that it's due to some inherent distrust of medicine, so...
Here. Are. The. Facts.

So perhaps it's more that systemic racism doesn't exactly help people trust the 'system'.
Current Tory rhetoric suggests they will soon try to blame Covid rates on ethnic minorities, implying that it's due to some inherent distrust of medicine, so...Here. Are. The. Facts.So perhaps it's more that systemic racism doesn't exactly help people trust the 'system'.
Current Tory rhetoric suggests they will soon try to blame Covid rates on ethnic minorities, implying that it's due to some inherent distrust of medicine, so...Here. Are. The. Facts.So perhaps it's more that systemic racism doesn't exactly help people trust the 'system'.
It's kind of hard to argue that increased vaccine hesitancy among ethnic minorities is because they don't like medicine and science... when people from ethnic minorities make up a disproportionate percentage of medical staff in our NHS. https://www.ethnicity-facts-figures.service.gov.uk/workforce-and-business/workforce-diversity/nhs-workforce/latest
NHS workforce

77.9% of NHS staff were White and 22.1% were from all other ethnic groups combined, according to a staff count at the end of March 2020.

https://www.ethnicity-facts-figures.service.gov.uk/workforce-and-business/workforce-diversity/nhs-workforce/latest
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