Hi, I'm Dan Pramak, and welcome to Axios Recap, where we dig into one big story.

Today is Wednesday, June 30th.

Gas prices are up, temperatures are finally down in the Pacific Northwest, and we're focused on vaccination disparities.

We're just a few days away from July 4th, and it's almost certain that America

won't meet President Biden's goal of having 70% of all Americans, at least partially vaccinated,

by the time that barbecues and fireworks are lit. And it matters, as we discussed in an

episode last week, because the more contagious delta variant is becoming

our dominant strain of COVID-19.

But focusing on that 70% threshold, whether reached or not, in many ways masks what's

really happening with vaccinations in America, where rates vary widely among demographic groups

and geographies.

It can be a difficult thing to break out because so few

states and vaccination sites actually track by race and ethnicity. But a new report from the Rockefeller

Foundation in Dahlberg finds that the percentage of white Americans who've received at least one

vaccine dose is around 1.4 times higher than the rate for black Americans and around 1.2 times higher than the rate for black Americans, and around 1.2 times higher than the rate

for Hispanic Americans. This plays into a media narrative about people of color being less likely

to want vaccinations, and there certainly is some history justified hesitancy. But Rockefeller

and Dahlberg find the disparity is much more about access to information and unequal distribution.

The report also showed on a more positive note that the racial gap has begun to shrink a bit,

with over 50% of current vaccinations going to people of color.

The senior vice president for Rockefeller's U.S. Equity and Economic Opportunity Initiative,

Otis Roley, writes in a blog post, quote,

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