How Black Doctors Are Addressing COVID-19 Vaccine Worries
Many Black people simply don t trust the COVID-19 vaccine. Our columnist talks to an immunologist about how to change that.
December 29, 2020
December 29, 2020
After months of fast-tracked development, the COVID-19 vaccines are finally available for those who qualify (the rollout process varies by state). But the racism embedded in the United States’ medical system has many Black people hesitant to be inoculated. That leaves doctors worried that the communities hit hardest by the coronavirus and the chronic health conditions it leaves in its wake will not be immunized.
That concern pushed the National Medical Association (NMA), the nation’s largest organization for Black doctors, to create a COVID-19 vaccine task force to provide an additional layer of vetting for the federal government’s review of the vaccines. The hope is to make the process more transparent and help Black people feel comfortable getting vaccinate
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Public health officials have said a widely available vaccine will ultimately control the pandemic that has killed almost 2,500 people in the state.
As the vaccines become available to the general public, America Amplified is gathering and curating answers from experts to questions on the minds of public radio listeners across the country.
There are different companies producing coronavirus vaccines. Will all of them require people to get two doses? And do they need two doses of the same vaccine? How will people avoid getting two different vaccines?
From William Schaffner MD, medical director of the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases:
Updated Jan. 22 at 10:06 a.m.
As the national vaccination process begins, WABE has partnered with America Amplified to gather and curate answers from experts to questions on the minds of public radio listeners across the country. These questions come from WABE listeners and partner stations WITF in Pennsylvania, Side Effects Public Media in Indiana, St. Louis Public Radio and WUSF in Florida.
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Q: Where can if find information about vaccination locations in Georgia
A: The Georgia Department of Health has implemented a Vaccine Locator at https://dph.georgia.gov/locations/covid-vaccination-site
You can search by county for vaccine providers. Officials say supply maybe limited and appointments must be made to get vaccinated.
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Boxes containing the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine are prepared to be shipped at the Pfizer Global Supply Kalamazoo manufacturing plant in Portage, Mich.
As the national vaccination process begins, America Amplified is gathering and curating answers from experts to questions on the minds of public media listeners and readers across the country.
Hospitals across the Kansas City area have started vaccinating frontline health care workers against COVID-19.
Public health officials have said a widely available vaccine will ultimately control the pandemic that has killed more than 7,000 people across Kansas and Missouri.
As the vaccines become available to the general public, America Amplified is gathering and curating answers from experts to questions on the minds of public radio listeners across the country.