Black and Latino Marylanders have received a disproportionately lower percentage of coronavirus vaccines, state data shows.

White Marylanders make up 58.5% of Maryland’s population, while about 31.1% of the state’s residents are Black, according to census data.

But of the 419,579 coronavirus vaccine doses that Maryland has administered as of Wednesday morning, white residents have received about 62% of the doses while Black residents have received less than 15%.

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