By Dominic Taylor-
Ethnic minorities will generally be unable to visit America ever again, following the mandatory rule for vaccination to enter the United States.
Following the new rule that only double vaccinated people can enter the U.S from November, many ethnic minorities who insist on not being vaccinated, will not be able to travel to America to see family members , friends, or for any other purpose.
Many black people who are refusing the vaccination cite historical abuse of black people in America that has made women sterile without their knowledge, preventing them from having children.
The Tuskegee Syphilis Study, in which 400 sharecroppers were denied treatment for syphilis over 40 years.
Study participants were compensated $10m, after many black people were allowed to die , despite a cure being found for syphillis, which was the subject of the research conducted by The U.S public Tracheal Service in 1932.
According to the Royal College of GPs, white people in England are more than twice as likely to have been vaccinated as people from black backgrounds, and three times as likely as people from mixed ethnic backgrounds.
The low uptake of vaccinations among some ethnic minority groups has concerned many scientists and governments, because of the view that they are most at risk of dying with COVID-19.
The ONS revealed last year that black people were nearly four times as likely to die from COVID-19 as white people.
However, some critics of the findings say the statistics featuring black people to be more likely to die than their white counterparts does not take into account the fact there are more black people on the front line in the NHS.
There are also questions about how efficient the statistics are in separating those black and ethnic minorities who died of Covid-19 due to working in hospitals, and those who died from the virus who had previously not worked in hospitals.
Research published by experts from the ONS and University of Oxford, showed that people from Bangladeshi and Pakistani groups experienced an “alarming” higher risk of dying with coronavirus throughout both waves of the pandemic, compared with white people.
Lower trust and confidence in vaccine efficacy and safety has also been linked to “structural and institutional racism and discrimination”, according to a document by the Scientific Advisory Group on emergencies (SAGE).
Ethnic minority groups have “historically been under-represented within health research, including vaccines trials, which can influence trust in a particular vaccine being perceived as appropriate and safe”, SAGE said.
“Trust is particularly important for black communities that have low trust in healthcare organisations and research findings due to historical issues of unethical healthcare research,” it added.
Circulating rumours online that the vaccine is being used as an experiment for humans like animals had spread widely since the beginning of the pandemic, including the view that it changes the DNA, a view that has been repeatedly stated to constitute misinformation by scientific experts and governments.
Many in the black community insist on doubting official pronouncements about the vaccine, and some have pointed to historical instances in which ethnic minorities have been the subject of vaccine experimentation.
There are also a number of white people who distrust the efficacy of the vaccine, and the integrity of those promoting it, but the percentage of skeptical white people about the vaccine is lower than that of skeptical black people.
Accurate research about the relative ratio of those in doubt has never been conducted, but will be pursued by this publication in both the UK and the U.S.