A writer for the NY Times states:
Likewise, lots of groups are more likely to be hesitant than firmly resistant, but they still have overall vaccination rates close to the rate for Republican constituencies. Black adults, for instance, have a vaccination rate of 60 percent, while Hispanics stand at 63 percent, both close to the white-evangelical rate of 58 percent. Looking at the Kaiser data, then, doesn’t yield a picture of a vaccination effort foundering on the rocks of Republican obduracy and paranoia. It yields a picture of an effort that has been incredibly successful among seniors, well-educated liberals and Democratic partisans and yielded diminishing returns for other groups — from racial minorities to rural Americans to the less educated and young and uninsured. The friendliness of certain Fox News shows to vaccine skeptics is a subset of this problem, but not even close to the problem as a whole.
Now yesterday we showed just the opposite for New Jersey. Asians are more than twice the vaccination rate than Blacks and Whites are not far behind Asians. Examining voter rolls it also shows Democrats well behind Republicans. Facts vs opinions?
The classic recommendation is to "pay" them for getting vaccinated. The opposite tactic is Darwinian, namely let them run loose and see what happens. Kind of survival of the whatever. Just a thought.
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