The year 2020 has yielded twin crises in the United States: a global pandemic and a public reckoning with racism brought about by a series of publicized instances of police violence toward Black men and women. Current data indicate that nationally, Black Americans are three times more likely than White Americans to contract Covid-19 (with further variance by state), a pattern that underscores the more general phenomenon of health disparity among Black and White Americans (Oppel et al. in The New York Times 2020; APM Research Lab Staff in APM Research Lab 2020). Once exposed, Black Americans are twice as likely to die of the virus. Unsurprisingly, Black Americans report higher levels of fear of Covid-19 than their White peers, but they also report higher levels of hesitancy toward a Covid-19 vaccine. This paper explores why this apparent discrepancy exists. It also provides practical recommendations for how government and public health leaders might address vaccine hesitancy in the context of the twin crises of 2020.

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两个危机的故事：解决 Covid-19 疫苗犹豫问题以促进种族正义

2020 年在美国产生了双重危机：全球流行病和公众对种族主义的公众清算，这些事件是由一系列公开的警察暴力侵害黑人男女事件引起的。目前的数据表明，在全国范围内，美国黑人感染 Covid-19 的可能性是美国白人的三倍（各州差异更大），这一模式突显了美国黑人和白人之间更普遍的健康差异现象（Oppel 等人。 2020 年纽约时报；2020 年 APM 研究实验室的 APM 研究实验室工作人员）。一旦暴露，美国黑人死于该病毒的可能性是其两倍。不出所料，美国黑人报告的对 Covid-19 的恐惧程度高于白人，但他们也报告说对 Covid-19 疫苗的犹豫程度更高。本文探讨了为什么存在这种明显的差异。它还为政府和公共卫生领导人如何在 2020 年双重危机的背景下解决疫苗犹豫问题提供了实用建议。