ANN ARBOR, MI – More than a quarter of surveyed Detroit residents once hesitant to receive the COVID-19 vaccine opted to get a shot in the second half of last year, according to a University of Michigan survey.

Among 1,630 Detroit residents surveyed, about two-thirds reported they had received at least one dose of the vaccine prior to July 2021. Of the remaining 36% of respondents, 10% reported in the most recent UM survey that they decided to go through with their first dose by December 2021.

The results show that vaccination outreach efforts aimed at the vaccine hesitant in the city have seen some success, according to UM staff associated with the Detroit Metropolitan Area Communities Survey.

In the summer 2021 DMACS survey, 80% of unvaccinated respondents reported they were hesitant or unlikely to receive the vaccine. Convincing a chunk of those respondents to get vaccinated is noteworthy, said Lydia Wileden, a UM doctoral candidate and DMACS research associate.

“This suggests there is room for persuasion even among those with little inclination to vaccinate,” she said.

The remaining quarter of Detroit respondents were considered “holdouts,” or still unvaccinated by the end of 2021, the survey says. Less than half of Detroit residents have received at least one COVID-19 vaccine dose, according to the Michigan COVID-19 vaccine dashboard, while the one-dose rate in the rest of the state is nearly 67%.

The survey data breaks out in multiple ways demographically. For instance, parents were about twice as likely to delay their first dose compared to non-parents.

Additionally, 82% of the white Detroiters surveyed received their vaccines prior to last summer’s initial survey compared to 62% of Black residents, 63% of Latino residents and half of multiracial or other ethnoracial groups.

Vaccine hesitancy among Black and Latino Detroit communities played out in the survey, as well, as DMACS reported white Detroiters were three times less likely to wait for their first doses. The fact that 10% of the most recent respondents ended up getting a shot shows how outreach efforts overcome historical racial skepticism of the U.S. health care system, officials said.

“Due to the long storied history that Black people have with institutional racism via health care and government, waiting and observing before acting on a new vaccine is necessary because the trust just isn’t there,” said Rev. Charles Williams II, a doctoral student at the UM School of Social Work and pastor of Historic King Solomon Baptist Church in Detroit.

The survey was made possible through support by the National Institutes of Health and a partnership with Michigan CEAL: Communities Conquering COVID, a participatory research group working on community outreach to educate and reduce COVID-19 inequities, according to a UM release.

Read more from MLive:

Detroit schools among 21 new COVID-19 outbreaks, per April 4 report

Washtenaw, Oakland counties see big case bump: Michigan COVID data for Thursday, April 7

Michigan reports 3,215 new COVID-19 cases; state moves to one day a week reporting

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