The mayor of New York City has acknowledged that Black and Latino residents are receiving COVID-19 vaccines at far lower rates than other groups, highlighting widespread racial disparity and discrimination in particular against African Americans in the United States.
Bill de Blasio blamed a combination of distrust in the vaccine among minority communities and greater ease of access to the shots for white New Yorkers as Black New Yorkers lag behind other racial groups in inoculations to fight the pandemic that has killed more than 400,000 people in the United States.