...with efficacy so much as culture, and these cultural factors may differ from one ethnic group to another, but the effect is the same.
As it happens, most of the anti-vax people I know are white, and there's no talking to them or getting it through their thick heads.
There are, in all ethnic groups, people who simply reject science.
Our Trump worshiping white racists are certainly not going to be moved by efficacy, particularly since they believe Covid isn't real.
The good news is that African American people who are vaccinated, at least with the Pfizer vaccine, will not get Covid, if the data I saw yesterday holds up. Given the inequity of access to health care, we can be glad that this at least is some consolation.
I have always regarded the rejection of omapatrilat by the FDA as a blow against African Americans, who as a population, for whatever reason, are less responsive to other blood pressure medicines. I think with personalized medicine approaches, identifying a biomarker for the angioedema that killed that drug, it might have been approved in modern times.
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