White New Yorkers who received the coronavirus vaccine outnumbered Asian and Latino recipients by more than three to one and blacks by more than four to one, according to city statistics released Sunday.
“The information we have shows a clear disparity,” Mayor Bill de Blasio said at a City Hall press briefing. “What we are seeing is a particularly pronounced reality of many more people in white communities receiving vaccinations than people in black and Latino communities.”
Of the city’s 297,166 adult residents receiving at least one two-dose vaccine that provided racial demographics, 48 percent are white, according to figures, in effect since Sunday morning.
The Asian and Latino communities each comprise about 15 percent of the vaccine recipients who provided their race, while black New York accounts for about 11 percent of the pool.
Ten percent of the recipients who provided the ride identified themselves as “others.”
However, about 40% of vaccine recipients did not provide racial data.
The difference is even stronger among the elderly, who are among those most susceptible to the deadly virus.
Of vaccine recipients age 65 or older who provided racial data, 58 percent are white, compared with 13 percent Latinos, 11 percent Asians, and nine percent blacks.
The mayor blamed a combination of distrust of the vaccine among minority communities and greater ease of access to photos for white New Yorkers.
“We have a deep problem of mistrust and hesitation, especially in communities of color,” he said. “We have a problem of privilege, clearly, if the people who were privileged were able to access [vaccines] with greater ease.
“We need to take a more systematic approach to make sure we focus on the places where the danger is greatest,” de Blasio continued.
Data published at the height of the pandemic, organized by postal code, showed that the coronavirus disproportionately affected poor and minority neighborhoods.
The city will also release demographic data for vaccines sorted by zip code in the coming days, de Blasio said.
To help improve access, de Blasio announced a number of steps, including re-instrumenting the city’s faulty programming website and adding more vaccination sites in some of the worst-hit neighborhoods, especially related to NYCHA developments.
He also said that hospital application forms for the vaccine – which, as The Post showed last week, were only available in English and Spanish – will soon be available in many additional languages: Urdu, Arabic, Bengali, Haitian Creole. , French, Korean, Polish, Russian and Simplified Chinese.
Data released on Sunday also included a breakdown of beneficiaries from the five neighborhoods compared to outside areas.
Three quarters of those partially vaccinated are city residents, compared to 25% who live outside the city.
Of those fully vaccinated, 72 percent are city residents, compared to 28 percent elsewhere.
However, the “vast majority” of non-residents are considered civil servants, including police and firefighters, de Blasio said.
Even though the vaccine was distributed fairly, the city and the state were later invaded by the pronounced lack of photographs, which led to the postponement of tens of thousands of meetings and the temporary closure of inoculation centers in the city.