Connecticut Convergence Institute for Translation in Regenerative Engineering, University of Connecticut Health Center, 263 Farmington Avenue L7036, Farmington, CT, 06030, USA.
Raymond and Beverly Sackler Center for Biomedical, Biological, Physical and Engineering Sciences, Farmington, CT, USA.
J Racial Ethn Health Disparities. 2021 Jun;8(3):543-546. doi: 10.1007/s40615-021-01025-4. Epub 2021 Mar 30.
The Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has had a terrible and long-lasting impact on the world. As the infection spreads, the projected mortality and economic devastation are unprecedented. Racism and its subsequent effects on social and economic factors have resulted in the virus disproportionally effecting Black people. Given that the virus has hit the Black community the hardest, I am concerned now that vaccine hesitancy may perpetuate the health disparities that we are currently seeing in the numbers of infections and deaths taking place in the Black community.
2019 年冠状病毒病（COVID-19）大流行对世界造成了可怕而持久的影响。随着感染的传播，预计死亡率和经济破坏是前所未有的。种族主义及其对社会和经济因素的后续影响导致该病毒不成比例地影响黑人。鉴于该病毒对黑人社区的打击最为严重，我现在担心疫苗犹豫可能会使我们目前在黑人社区的感染和死亡人数方面看到的健康差距永久存在。
