"In the UK, about 3% of the population is Black, but only 1.8% of doses have gone to Black people."
Do you think that this is due to specific discrimination in the delivery process, or due to broader underlying inequality? By the second one, I'm thinking mechanisms like
1) more deprived areas getting less vaccine and disproportionately affecting Black people, or
2) Black people having lower life expectancy on average, and therefore fewer falling into the vaccine priority groups based on age.
3) Black people being more likely to be immigrants, and therefore younger (since visa tests exclude most old people because of their overall net cost to public services).
The population pyramids by ethnicity from 2011 are quite different - heaps more old white people than old black people - which would influence the vaccine delivery percentages significantly, from what I understand of the UK's vaccine rollout. Of course, this only begs the question why the population pyramids are so different.
P.S: I'm not claiming any of these mechanisms are true, I don't have the data/context to back them up - just curious if you've explored this direction.
Nice article =)
"In the UK, about 3% of the population is Black, but only 1.8% of doses have gone to Black people."
Do you think that this is due to specific discrimination in the delivery process, or due to broader underlying inequality? By the second one, I'm thinking mechanisms like
1) more deprived areas getting less vaccine and disproportionately affecting Black people, or
2) Black people having lower life expectancy on average, and therefore fewer falling into the vaccine priority groups based on age.
3) Black people being more likely to be immigrants, and therefore younger (since visa tests exclude most old people because of their overall net cost to public services).
The population pyramids by ethnicity from 2011 are quite different - heaps more old white people than old black people - which would influence the vaccine delivery percentages significantly, from what I understand of the UK's vaccine rollout. Of course, this only begs the question why the population pyramids are so different.
(http://www.cpa.org.uk/information/reviews/theageingoftheethnicminoritypopulationsofenglandandwales-findingsfromthe2011census.pdf)
P.S: I'm not claiming any of these mechanisms are true, I don't have the data/context to back them up - just curious if you've explored this direction.