The most recent numbers on the state’s vaccine dashboard shows that only 38% of Colorado’s Hispanic population has been vaccinated with at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine.
That is lowest percentage of all the demographic groups in Colorado. So we asked a medical expert who serves the Hispanic community in Colorado to tell us why that is.
Dr. Gonzalez-Fisher, medical expert for the non-profit organization, Servicios de la Raza, said that it’s a combination of things that make it challenging for some people to get vaccinated.
“About 42% of the people that we serve are uninsured and this is one of the things that has a certain impact on them,” Gonzalez-Fisher said. “The other part is that a lot of the people that we serve are monolingual Spanish speakers, they don’t understand the system. They’re front line workers that don’t have permission from their employers to go to get a vaccine sometimes, and there is a lot of distrust in the system.”
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