Familiar racial disparities emerge in first month of COVID-19 vaccinations for the youngest Texans

Jazmine Richards injects Hana Ismail, 2, with the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine while she sits on her father’s lap at Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston last month. (Credit: Justin Rex for The Texas Tribune)

Black toddlers and infants in Texas are being vaccinated against COVID-19 much more slowly than their white, Hispanic and Asian counterparts, according to state health data.

On the other end of the spectrum, 43% of the doses that have been administered to babies and kids who became eligible last month have gone to Hispanic children, state numbers show. And young Asian kids have received a share of the total doses that is nearly triple their share of Texans in that age group.