Department of Sociology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, 61801, USA.
Sci Rep. 2021 Sep 16;11(1):18443. doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-97705-6.
Prior research has well established the association of ethno-racial and economic inequality with COVID-19 incidence and mortality rates across counties in the US. In this ecological study, a similar association was found between ethno-racial and economic inequality and COVID-19 full vaccination rates across the 102 counties in the American state of Illinois in the early months of vaccination. Among the counties with income inequality below the median, a county's poverty rate had a negative association with the proportion of population fully vaccinated. However, among the counties with income inequality above the median, a higher percentage of Black or Hispanic population was persistently associated with a lower proportion of fully vaccinated population over the two-month period from early February to early April of 2021.
先前的研究已经充分证实，在美国各县，族裔和经济不平等与 COVID-19 的发病率和死亡率之间存在关联。在这项生态研究中，在疫苗接种早期，伊利诺伊州的 102 个县的族裔和经济不平等与 COVID-19 完全接种率之间也存在类似的关联。在收入不平等低于中位数的县中，该县的贫困率与完全接种人口的比例呈负相关。然而，在收入不平等高于中位数的县中，在 2021 年 2 月初至 4 月初的两个月期间，黑人和西班牙裔人口比例较高与完全接种人口比例较低之间一直存在关联。
