White New Yorkers who have received the coronavirus vaccine outnumber Asian and Latino recipients by more than three to one and blacks by more than four to one, according to city demographics released Sunday.
“The information we have shows a clear disparity,” Mayor Bill de Blasio said during a City Council press conference. “What we see is a particularly marked reality of many more people from white communities being vaccinated than people from black and Latino communities.”
Of the 297,166 adult residents of the city who received at least one dose of the two-dose vaccine that provided racial demographics, 48% are white, according to figures, current on Sunday morning.
Asian and Latino communities make up about 15 percent of the vaccine recipients who provided their careers, while black New Yorkers make up about 11 percent of the pool.
In comparison, 32 percent of the city’s residents are white, 29 percent Hispanic, 22 percent black, and 14 percent Asian, according to census data dating back to 2019.
The difference is even more noticeable among the elderly, who are among the people most susceptible to the deadly virus.
Of the vaccine recipients aged 65 and over who provided racial data, 58% are white, compared with 13% Latinos, 11% Asians, and 9% blacks.
The mayor blamed a combination of mistrust in the vaccine among minority communities and greater ease of access to gunfire for white New Yorkers.
“We have a deep problem of mistrust and hesitation, especially in communities of color,” he said. “We have a privilege issue, clearly, where people who have been privileged have been able to access the [vaccines] more easily.
“We need to have a more systematic approach to make sure we focus on the places where the danger is greatest,” Blasio continued.
Data published in the midst of the pandemic, organized by zip code, showed that the coronavirus disproportionately affected poor and minority neighborhoods.
The city will also post demographic data on zip-ordered vaccines in the coming days, Blasio said.
To help improve access, de Blasio announced a number of steps, including reusing the city’s malicious programming website and adding more vaccination sites in some of the hardest-hit neighborhoods, especially related to NYCHA developments. .
He also said that the hospital application forms for the vaccine, which, as The Post pointed out last week, would only be available in English and Spanish, will soon be available in many additional languages: Urdu, Arabic, Bengali, Creole. Haitian, French, Korean, Polish, Russian and Simplified Chinese.
Data released on Sunday also included a breakdown of recipients coming from the five districts compared to external areas.
Three-quarters of those partially vaccinated are city residents, compared to 25% living outside the city.
Among those completely vaccinated, 72% are residents of the city, compared to 28% in other countries.
However, it is believed that the “vast majority” of non-vaccinated non-city residents are public officials, including police and firefighters, according to Blasio.
Even if the vaccine was distributed equitably, the city and the state have been harassed lately by the scarcity of gunfire, leading to the postponement of tens of thousands of appointments and the temporary closure of the centers. inoculation of the city.