Vaccine hesitation has been a widespread issue throughout the United States since COVID-19 vaccines were first announced near the end of 2020. Initially, the resistance leaned more on the political end of things with former President Donald Trump taking questionable stances on the virus and vaccine. However, as Moderna , Pfizer , and Johnson & Johnson began producing the inoculation, fear of the unknown shook the Black community at large, who primarily cited a lack of trust in the American healthcare system among other concerns. In the summer of 2020, the National Urban League produced a report that showed that Black people are three times more likely to get COVID-19 than their white counterparts. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), there have been 703,699 COVID-related deaths in the United States as of Oct. 8. The COVID Racial Data Tracker reports that Black people represent 15% of COVID-19 deaths where race is known, and die at 1.4 times the rate...
