Coronavirus: What’s behind vaccine-hesitancy? – BBC Newsnight

Black MPs from across the parties in the UK have joined together in a video encouraging people to get the coronavirus vaccine. Is the government doing enough to encourage those who are reluctant to get the jab? Please subscribe HERE http://bit.ly/1rbfUog

The Office for National Statistics has found all ethnic minority groups, other than Chinese, are more likely to die from the virus than white people.

But a study suggests of those already vaccinated, black people over 80 are half as likely to get the jab than white people in the same age group.

Is the government doing enough to counter misinformation about the Covid-19 vaccine?

Newsnight’s UK Editor Katie Razzall reports. Emma Barnett is joined by former Facebook executive and now Liberal Democrat member of the House of Lords, Richard Allan, CEO of the Centre for Countering Digital Hate, Imran Ahmed, and Dr Annabel Sowemimo, who works to increase engagement with healthcare among people of African descent.

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