How do New Yorkers feel about the COVID-19 Vaccines? We asked.

By: Claribel Rivas, Gwen Ifill Fellow

Nearly a year ago, New York became the epicenter of the pandemic. Black and Hispanic communities, were hospitalized at disproportionately higher rates, exposing the country’s racial health disparities. Local community leaders are working to fight vaccine hesitancy, and mass vaccination sites have opened across the city. We asked New Yorkers how they feel about the vaccine. This is what they said.