Becker's Healthcare August 12, 2022
While early CDC data suggests U.S. monkeypox cases are high among Black and Hispanic people, vaccination rates among the groups are lagging, with at least 54 percent of doses going to white people nationwide, Bloomberg reported Aug. 11.
Black people made up 26 percent of cases with known race and ethnicity information and Hispanic people made up 32 percent of all cases as of July 28, according to the CDC.
The scope of national monkeypox vaccine disparities is incomplete because the CDC relies on state and local health departments for demographic data on uptake. Bloomberg reached out to 10...
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