> But no one has really bothered to ask who the unvaccinated are. The Spectator’s data team has looked at the NHS database to find out. Britain’s racial disparity is worse than America’s. Some 16 per cent of white people in Britain have not been jabbed, but this figure stands at almost half for black people and a third for South Asians. Similar trends can be seen worldwide, with complex and much-debated causes (such as trust in authority). This vaccine gap shows no sign of closing. You can say that this is maddening, illogical, dangerous. But unless it changes, be in no doubt: vaccine passports would be a tool of discrimination likely to “whiten up” any venue in which they are deployed.

> Then comes poverty. Vaccines are popular in Britain’s prosperous areas but become less so the further down the income scale you go. The poorest 20 per cent in Britain are almost three times more likely to be unvaccinated than the richest (a figure that has never been published, let alone discussed). Again, let’s be in no doubt about who’d be most likely to end up out in the cold: people in the poorest communities who already get the worst deal from the health service.

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In the UK a higher percentage of people in ethnic groups live below the poverty line, but in real numbers there are many time more poor white people, as the UK is 90% white. That means that someone living in poverty in the UK has a 6 in 7 chance of being white.

Poorer areas might have worse health services, but people in those areas tend to also live more unhealthy lifestyles which is the realthat lifespans in those areas tend to be lower than more affluent areas.

Being poor isn't the reason people in these groups aren't getting vaccinated; it's out of choice driven by ignorance or fear; as it's free to be vaccinated. The groups your mention are often are less educated and have cultural conflicts with medical and scientific advice.

Many communities have willfully ignored public health advice simply because they think it doesn't apply to them.