Two new JAMA Network Open studies confirm that US racial minorities have borne an outsized burden during the COVID-19 pandemic, with showing a 30% higher rate of vaccination in White adults compared with their Black and Hispanic peers, and the other finding that non-White coronavirus patients were much more likely to be hospitalized, need intensive care, and die.Delays in reaching 50% vaccine uptakeIn a research letter yesterday, Stanford University researchers described how they used demographic data from the American Community Survey and state- and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)-reported COVID-19 vaccination rates to model vaccine uptake in adults during the initial vaccination scale-up.Relative state-reported vaccine