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Surge in African American medical school applicants drive to action by Covid

Currently, only 5% of doctors in the U.S. are Black. Some medical schools are reporting as much as a 43% increase in African American applicants since the pandemic began.

How to Fight Vaccine Misinformation

Study by Boston University shows personal stories more effective than facts in countering anti-vaxxers

“Among people who are vaccine hesitant, trust for their healthcare professionals, their doctors and nurses, is much, much higher than for the government, the pharmaceutical companies.”

News Author: 
Andrew Thurston

Some Health Workers Say They're Not Refusing The Vaccine, They Just Need Some Time

A national survey found that 15% of health care workers who had been offered the vaccine said no, with nursing home personnel more likely to refuse than hospital staffers.

News Author: 
Aneri Pattani

Shifting trends in vaccine hesitancy

Greater divergence in attitudes, growing reticence among minorities

Even as manufacturers reported extraordinary efficacy results for the first COVID-19 vaccine candidates, a nationwide survey by CVS Health (a PCC Executive Member) found significant hesitancy to getting vaccinated among respondents. Our initial survey also showed significant variation in attitudes among different demographic, racial, and ethnic groups.

Primary Care & COVID-19: Round 25 Survey

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Check back regularly for the latest survey results and updates.
For data from the previous survey, see Round 24 Results.

The Primary Care Collaborative is partnering with the Larry A. Green Center to regularly survey primary care clinicians and patients to better understand the impact of COVID-19 in real time.

Who replied to the survey in round 25?

I'm a Black doctor who didn't trust the Covid vaccine.

Here's what changed my mind. Let’s normalize hesitancy to take a new vaccine. Instead of judgment, we need to empower trusted messengers to answer community questions and dispel myths.

As an emergency medicine physician with regular exposure to Covid-19 patients, I knew I would be prioritized for vaccination. However, for many months, I was decidedly and definitely against being among the first to get the shot. Instead, I planned to wait and see how others did with the vaccine. I suppose I am wary of the very system to which I have dedicated nearly two decades of my career...

Here is what helped change my mind.

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By Dr. Eugenia South, assistant professor of emergency medicine at the University of Pennsylvania

'You Can't Treat If You Can't Empathize': Black Doctors Tackle Vaccine Hesitancy

Black Americans have been catching the coronavirus, getting severely ill and dying from it, at a rate higher than other racial and ethnic groups in the U.S. Black Americans are also less likely to want to get the COVID-19 vaccine, according to polls. A survey from the Kaiser Family Foundation last month found that around 35% of Black adults are not planning to get COVID-19 vaccines.

News Author: 
Pien Huang

Doctors’ offices contend with a deluge of requests for the vaccine.

Doctors’ offices are overflowing with inquiries from patients who hope to get the vaccine, even though most physicians do not have doses to offer. Overwhelmed with all the requests, staff members in some private medical offices are sending out emails and putting up posters in their offices and notes on their websites making it clear that they cannot provide the shot.

News Author: 
Giulia McDonnell Nieto del Rio

Most successful vaccine rollouts in US: 4 state strategies

States are rushing to administer the COVID-19 vaccines as fast as possible, and some states have been more successful than others. 

North Dakota has one of the best vaccination rates in the country, according to data from the CDC. The state had administered 73.76 percent of the vaccines it had received as of Jan. 12. West Virginia and Connecticut rank second and third, at 64.19 percent and 60.37 percent, respectively. South Dakota comes in at fourth, administering 58.32 percent of distributed vaccines.

News Author: 
Maia Anderson, Mackenzie Bean and Gabrielle Masson

Why Connecticut Is Winning the Vaccination Rollout

Here’s what it’s doing right, so far

The vaccine rollout in the United States is progressing — albeit not as quickly as anyone would like. But there isn’t a single “vaccine rollout” — instead responsibility for distributing the vaccines has been delegated to states, and some states are getting shots into arms faster than others. Connecticut is one of those states.

News Author: 
Alexandra Sifferlin

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