Many people understand the COVID-19 fear and weaponization will continue until the political leftists promoting the narrative have exhausted its usefulness. To support that opinion a Vanderbilt University medical director for the National Foundation for Infections Disease tells CBS news: “that it would be best to give up the idea of life going “back to normal,” and instead embrace a “new normal” where our lives revolve around COVID-19.”
(VIA CBS) “We’ve been told that this virus will disappear. But it will not,” Dr. William Schaffner, a professor at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine and medical director of the National Foundation For Infectious Diseases, tells CBS News.
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As of mid-February, the CDC says of those who have received the first dose of vaccine, nearly two-thirds were white, about 63%, and 6% were Black. Now the CDC only has demographics for about half of those who ve gotten the vaccine so far. Did those statistics surprise you at all?
LaVeist
Not really. I mean, there are several challenges here. Really three challenges that that we ve been facing. One is that there just isn t enough vaccine. So just having enough to meet the demand has been a problem. Determining exactly how to allocate that between the nursing homes and outside of nursing homes has been an issue because we do have some excess in the nursing homes, but not enough to really meet the demand outside. So that s one issue. The other issue we have is that the vaccine distribution locations that you would normally use – hospitals, pharmacies, clinics, things like that – those facilities are not equally distributed throughout the country. And the country is dramat
Why Are Black Communities Being Singled Out as Vaccine Hesitant?
Why Are Black Communities Being Singled Out as Vaccine Hesitant?
Positioning vaccine distrust as a problem specific to African Americans is not only inaccurate and unjust - it s also harmful
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When Dr. Thomas Beavers concluded Sunday service on March 15th, 2020, he never imagined that it would be the last time he’d see congregants fill the pews of the New Rising Star Church affectionately known as “The Star” in the Eastlake community of Birmingham, Alabama for at least a year. Since then, Beavers, who serves as pastor to approximately 3,800 members of the church, has held weekly services online.
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