Worldwide, racial and ethnic minorities have been disproportionately impacted by COVID-19. This cohort study examined vaccine hesitancy and uptake among U.S. and U.K. participants in the COVID Symptom Study (March 2020-February 2021). In the U.S., Black and Hispanic participants showed greater vaccine hesitancy than white participants. Similar hesitancy was seen in U.K. minority groups. However, vaccine uptake differed between countries; U.S. Black participants had significantly lower uptake, even among those willing to be vaccinated, suggesting access disparities may contribute to lower uptake in the U.S.

Long H. Nguyen, Amit D. Joshi, David A. Drew, Jordi Merino, Wenjie Ma, Chun-Han Lo, Sohee Kwon, Kai Wang, Mark S. Graham, Lorenzo Polidori, Cristina Menni, Carole H. Sudre, Adjoa Anyane-Yeboa, Christina M. Astley, Erica T. Warner, Christina Y. Hu, Somesh Selvachandran, Richard Davies, Denis Nash, Paul W. Franks, Jonathan Wolf, Sebastien Ourselin, Claire J. Steves, Tim D. Spector, Andrew T. Chan