TABLE 3.

Insight on Decision to Vaccinate or Not from Qualitative Questions

Theme	Representative Quote
Patients choose to become vaccinated because of a sense of social responsibility (N = 15)	“I want us [my family] to be protected and more protected against COVID…and I have older family members that I always visit”
Patients consider vaccination a decision for personal health rather than community health (N = 17)	“Being over 60, and having COPD,” “I’m really susceptible more than COVID than others will be”
Patients did not vaccinate because they view it as ineffective for their personal health or experimental (N = 13)	“If you get it, it ain’t doing nothing for you because a lot of people are getting it and still dying behind it. So it’s really no point in getting it in my eyes.”“Some of them are dying. So I personally don’t feel that I want a vaccine, something that has not been fully tested. Something that’s being experimented. I don’t want to be a part of that.”
Patients distrust the vaccine due to experienced discrimination or history of exploitation (N = 14)	“It would scare the crap out of anybody because they even said how they were in the Tuskegee experiment and syphilis experiment and all that crap. So, yeah, he’s experimented on us a lot as black people, so that in itself is discouraging. So the very people that supposed to be here to protect you are the very people that was here to ruin you”“I mean, it’s really in who you know, your connects, because people of color, we don’t get no special treatment unless we got somebody with us connect with some special treatment”

Four major themes which emerged from coding of qualitative interviews by 2 independent coders are listed in the left column. Representative quotes from each theme were selected from interviews and are listed in the right column.