As the number of people infected by COVID-19 grows, the issue of vaccination becomes more and more vital for every country. However, vaccine doses are distributed unevenly among people of different countries end ethnicities. The hypothesis for the present research is that even in developed countries, vaccine doses may be distributed unequally among white people and racial minorities. The population of interest for the study is ethnical minorities.
Variables concern the number of white people getting vaccinated in comparison with the number of people from ethnic minorities who are eager to get their doses of the vaccine. These two variables will be the independent ones since the main aim of the researcher, in that case, is to establish whether race and ethnicity influence the process of getting COVID-19 vaccines. When speaking about the dependent variables, they will be the number of vaccines for white people and ethnic minorities. The direction of the research will be to establish the differences in the proportion of COVID-19 vaccine doses available for ethnic minorities to the number of people who want to get vaccinated. Finally, these numbers will be compared with the numbers obtained from the analysis of the same indicators that concern white people. It will help establish whether there is social injustice in the sphere.
The research article by Grumbach et al. relates to the same concept and studies the connection of likeness of COVID-19 vaccine uptake with race and ethnicity among the citizens of San-Francisco. The possible hypothesis of the research may be the fact that race and ethnicity impact the probability of getting vaccinated (Grumbach et al., 2021). The authors also took into account people’s intentions to vaccinate and related them to the racial factor.
Reference
Grumbach, K., Judson, T., Desai, M., Jain, V., Lindan, K., Doernberg, S. B. & Holubar, M. (2021). Association of race/ethnicity with likeness of COVID-19 vaccine uptake among health workers and the general population in the San Francisco Bay Area. JAMA Internal Medicine, 181(7).