I think it depends on whether someone is truly anti-vax or just extremely cautious and still waiting and seeing. There are more people in the latter camp than you might think. Note the following points are anecdotes, not data:
I know some people who got the vaccine very late (think late June/July) because they were either scared the side effects would make them miss work and get them fired or because they just didn't feel like it. Both of these groups are gettable.
Another group of people are the ones who are trepidatious about how quickly the vaccine was approved or say "it's still not fully FDA approved / the FDA says they don't have enough data to call it 100% safe yet." What sucks is that both of those statements in quotes are objectively true. The FDA's official position on the vaccine right now is "this is lifesaving medicine and we want everyone to take it, but also there isn't enough safety data to say if it's definitely safe or good for your kids." This is an incredibly stupid position that is killing people. The FDA should have fully approved the vaccine and extended it to kids months ago and their dithering over this has caused thousands of preventable deaths. There are likely some people in this group that are gettable.
There are then, of course, the Fox News/Infowars/conspiracy nuts. They'll only be gettable with a very strict mandate. This is why vaccine mandates and passports are good.
Also, while I'm not black and don't want to speak for black people, I would bet any amount of money that Tuskegee is not the reason for low black vaccination rates. That very much sounds like a shitty white academic's explanation for it, not something backed up by actual data.
anecdotally, the black people in my circle who have not gotten vaccinated (or at least the people who have been vocally against vaccination; maybe there are more people not getting vaccinated who are not vocal and have different reasons) are strongly distrustful of the govt (and other institutions: dem party, big pharma, antifa, the police) and allude to or explicitly cite Tuskegee RE vaccination hesitancy.
I think it depends on whether someone is truly anti-vax or just extremely cautious and still waiting and seeing. There are more people in the latter camp than you might think. Note the following points are anecdotes, not data:
I know some people who got the vaccine very late (think late June/July) because they were either scared the side effects would make them miss work and get them fired or because they just didn't feel like it. Both of these groups are gettable.
Another group of people are the ones who are trepidatious about how quickly the vaccine was approved or say "it's still not fully FDA approved / the FDA says they don't have enough data to call it 100% safe yet." What sucks is that both of those statements in quotes are objectively true. The FDA's official position on the vaccine right now is "this is lifesaving medicine and we want everyone to take it, but also there isn't enough safety data to say if it's definitely safe or good for your kids." This is an incredibly stupid position that is killing people. The FDA should have fully approved the vaccine and extended it to kids months ago and their dithering over this has caused thousands of preventable deaths. There are likely some people in this group that are gettable.
There are then, of course, the Fox News/Infowars/conspiracy nuts. They'll only be gettable with a very strict mandate. This is why vaccine mandates and passports are good.
Also, while I'm not black and don't want to speak for black people, I would bet any amount of money that Tuskegee is not the reason for low black vaccination rates. That very much sounds like a shitty white academic's explanation for it, not something backed up by actual data.
anecdotally, the black people in my circle who have not gotten vaccinated (or at least the people who have been vocally against vaccination; maybe there are more people not getting vaccinated who are not vocal and have different reasons) are strongly distrustful of the govt (and other institutions: dem party, big pharma, antifa, the police) and allude to or explicitly cite Tuskegee RE vaccination hesitancy.