White New Yorkers who received the coronavirus vaccine are more than three-to-one Asian and Latino recipients, and black recipients with more than four-to-one, according to the city’s demographic data released Sunday.
“The information we have shows a clear difference,” Mayor Bill de Blasio told a news conference in City Hall. “What we are seeing is a particularly pronounced reality that far more people from white communities are getting vaccinated than people from black and Latino communities.”
Of the 297,166 adult residents of the city who received at least one dose of the two-dose vaccine that provided racial demographic data, 48 percent are currently white as of Sunday morning.
Asian and Latino communities each make up about 15 percent of the vaccine recipients who provided their breed, while black New Yorkers make up about 11 percent of the pool.
Ten percent of the recipients who offered their breed are indicated as ‘other’.
However, about 40 percent of the vaccine recipients did not provide racial data.
The difference is even stronger among senior citizens, who are among those most susceptible to the deadly virus.
Of the vaccine recipients 65 years or older who provided racial data, 58 percent were white, compared with 13 percent Latino, 11 percent Asian, and nine percent black.
The mayor blamed a combination of mistrust in the vaccine among minority communities and greater access to white shots for white New Yorkers.
“We have a serious problem of mistrust and hesitation, especially in color communities,” he said. ‘We have a problem of privilege, where people with a privilege have access to the [vaccines] with greater ease.
“We need to take a more systematic approach to ensure we focus on the places where the danger is greatest,” de Blasio continued.
Data released during the pandemic, organized by zip code, showed that the coronavirus was excessively affecting poor and minority neighborhoods.
The city will also announce the demographic data of vaccines in the coming days, de Blasio said.
To improve access, de Blasio announced a series of steps, including the redesign of the city’s malicious scheduling site and the addition of more vaccination sites in some of the hardest-hit neighborhoods, particularly linked to the development of NYCHA.
He also said that hospital application forms for the vaccine – which, as The Post noted last week, are only available in English and Spanish – will soon be available in many other languages: Urdu, Arabic, Bengali, Haitian-Creole, French, Korean , Polish, Russian and Simplified Chinese.
The data released Sunday also included an outline of the recipients of the five districts versus outlying areas.
Three-quarters of those partially vaccinated are residents of the city, while 25 percent live outside the city.
Among those fully vaccinated, 72 percent are residents of the city, compared to 28 percent from elsewhere.
However, the “vast majority” of residents who are not vaccinated in the city are believed to be government officials, including cops and firefighters, de Blasio said.
Even if the vaccine is distributed fairly, the city and the state were hit too late by the obvious shortages of the shots, which led to the postponement of tens of thousands of appointments and the temporary closure of vaccination points around the city.