Domenech: Almost Half of African and Hispanic-Americans Are Vaccine Hesitant, Nothing Mitch McConnel Can Say Could Fix That

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DOMENECH: "And I think that if you actually look at the evidence that we have from the populations that are most vaccine-resistant, you know, I think to a certain extent, when Jake Tapper lays this at the feet of right-wing media or Republican officials, he’s saying that somehow almost half of African-Americans and nearly as many Hispanic Americans have become fans of all of these places overnight, because those are the populations that are the most vaccine-resistant. We saw polling from CBS News just this week, looking at those populations and they’re vaccine-resistant. Unfortunately, only about half of African-Americans say that they either have gotten the shot or they intend to get one. That’s a huge problem and that’s not going to be fixed no matter how many times Mitch McConnell goes out there and says that they ought to do so. So, look, what I see on the right is overwhelming unanimity among the political class and among the media class as well that these vaccines are good. And to the degree that there’s skepticism, it tends to be about should children be vaccinated or is that something that's necessary in order to go back to school and the like, as opposed to doubting the vaccines or saying that there’s some overwhelming danger from taking them. On the flipside, last summer, when Kamala Harris said that she was opposed to taking a vaccine if just Donald Trump told her to, it's something that she would later repeat in the debate, STAT News polled and found almost a 20-point drop among African-Americans in terms of their faith in the vaccine. So I look to the White House and I look to their leadership on this issue."