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Welcome to COVID Quickly, a new Scientific American podcast series.

This is your fast track update on the COVID pandemic.

We bring you up to speed on the science behind the most urgent questions about the virus and the disease.

We demystify the research, and we help you understand what it really means. I'm Tanya Lewis. I'm Josh Fishman. And we're scientific

American senior health editors. Today, we're going to be talking about the barriers black

and Latino people face in getting COVID vaccines. How your immune system strikes back against

coronavirus variants. And what the heck is going on with the

AstraZeneca vaccine? The pace of COVID vaccinations is picking up in the U.S. More than 87 million

people have gotten at least one dose. Still, communities hit hardest by the disease are getting left behind.

Who are they? And what's the trouble? It's true that states are opening up vaccination to more and more

people, but black and Latino people are still getting vaccinated at lower rates than white and Asian people,

despite getting sick and dying at higher numbers from COVID. I know you did some reporting on this with our colleague graphics editor Amanda Montanieres.

What states did you look at?

So we broke down the data for five populous states with some of the worst COVID outbreaks,

California, Texas, Florida, New York, and Illinois.

The data show that Latino people had some of the lowest vaccination rates

proportional to their share of the population, especially in California and Texas. Black people

...